MS SQL DBA for Qatar

VAM Systems is a Business Consulting, IT Solutions and Services company with operations in UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, USA, Australia, Singapore & India.

VAMSystems is a Business Consulting, IT Solutions andServices company with operations in UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, USA,Australia, Singapore & India.

VAMSystems is currently looking for MSSQL DBAfor our Qatar operations with the following skill set and terms andconditions:

Experience/Knowledge

• Expertiseon installing, configuring, managing, monitoring and troubleshootingSQL Server 2000/2005/2008/2008 R2 and SQL 2012

• 5+ years of handling MSSQL RDBMS with clustering Experience.

• Shouldhave good expertisein Microsoft Clustering Services (MSCS) bothActive/Active and Active/Passive with provision of failover andfailback capabilities.

• Experiencein design and maintaining Log Shipping & Mirroring.

• Experiencein upgrading database from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005/2008/2008 R2 and SQL 2005 to SQL 2008 R2/SQL 2012.

• Extensiveexperience in deploying and monitoring packages using SSIS and DTS.

• Musthave worked High Availability on Log Shipping, Replication,Clustering and Mirroring

• Strongknowledge and experience in DR Plans - Preparing DR plans andperform DR drill and real DR exercise

• Strongknowledge and experience in backups and recovery

• Strongknowledge to Implementing Database maintenance plan for Databaseconsistence & Integrity.

• StrongKnowledge in Database Security modules

• Experienceto manage SQL Server Logins, Database users and user permissions.

• Experiencein Monitoring, Analyzing database performance, Tuning and Allocation of server resources to achieve optimum databaseperformance. Tracing and Performance tuning using SQL Profiler.

• Experiencein configuring Transactional and Snapshot Replication, DatabaseMirroring and Log Shipping in Production Environment

• Proficientwith SQL Server tools, including Enterprise Manager, ManagementStudio, Query Analyzer, Profiler, SQL Server Agent, DTS, SSRS andSSIS.

• ExperienceInstalling, Monitoring and Troubleshooting of SSRS & SSIS

• Strongknowledge in SQL Server Reporting Services to Designing the SSRSreports according to the business need

• Experiencein T-SQL - Writing Stored Procedures, Views, Functions and Queries

• Experiencein developing the successful Backup strategies based on Recoverymodels.

• Shouldhave experience in third party backup tools such as, Tivoli DataProtector for SQL and HPOV monitoring

• Experienceto sync Pre-Production and Development database server environmentwith production.

• Experienceto Applying Security updates, hot fixes and SP up gradation.

• ProcessExperience – Very strong in ITIL processes on Change Management,Problem Management, Incident Management and ITIL Process relatedactivities

• Provide7x24 environment uptime supports to all SQL Servers.

• Excellentcommunication skills, both written and oral to interact effectivelywith application team, vendors and external customers.

• Provideon-call/off-hours DBA support as well as perform weekend maintenancetasks.

• Shouldhave Experience in backup tools like TSM TDP, EMC Networker.

• Knowledgein Unix OS is will be preferred.

• Shouldhave basic knowledge in managing and administration of Oracle RDBMS.

• Shouldhave knowledge in developing PL/SQL.

• Shouldhave basic Knowledge in Oracle installations and configuration.

• Shouldhave basic knowledge in Oracle Memory Architecture.

• Shouldhave knowledge in Oracle High availability solution (RAC).

• Shouldhave knowledge in Oracle Backup and Recovery.

• Knowledgein Shell scripting will be an add one advantage.

Qualifications& certifications

• Relaventexperience minimum of 5 years in SQL Database administration.

• Microsoft®Certified IT Professional ﴾MCITP﴿

• Microsoft®Certified Technology Specialist ﴾MCTS﴿

• SQLClustering experience is mandatory

• OracleCertifiied Administartor /Professional will be an add one advantage.

MainPurpose of the Role:

• Primaryrole to provide support on SQL database maintenance and BAU.

• Secondaryrole to Provide Support on Oracle,Sybase.

• Handlinginfra DBA projects,BAU service improvements and to provide 24/7 On- call support.

Termsand conditions:

Joiningtime frame: 2 weeks (maximum 1 month).

Theselected candidates shall join VAM Systems – Qatar and shall bedeputed to one of the leading Banks in Qatar.

Bachelor's Degree

Should you be interested in this opportunity, please send your latest resume in MS Word format at the earliest at ambili.krishnan@vamsystems or call us + 91 4762681150