DBA Engineer

Ampcus Inc. is a certified global provider of a broad range of Technology and Business consulting services. We are in search of a highly motivated candidate to join our talented Team.

Job Title: DBA Engineer

Location(s): Washington, DC

Essential Duties:

The position's essential duties include the following:

Support of production and non-production databases:

• Correct issues reported in production system.
• Support routine and ad-hoc IT DBA requests.
• Update documentation, if required as part of correcting production issues.
• Implement and monitor daily and nightly database maintenance jobs.
• Monitor, diagnose, and respond to system failure and performance issues, taking appropriate measures to reduce system downtime and eliminate recurrence of the problem.
• Work with technical staff, including network engineers and software developers, to analyze and improve system performance.
• Formulate and implement backup procedures for all company databases.
• Serve as technical support for any database related performance or access issue.
• Generate ad-hoc and routine reports and define metrics for database health and performance.
• Administer, maintain, develop and implement policies and procedures for ensuring the security and integrity of company databases.
• Leading the team in providing technical support for any database-related performance or access issue.
• Perform or affect the performance of all database installations, patches, and planned upgrades.
• Implement data models and database designs, data access and table maintenance codes.
• Resolve database performance issues, database capacity issues, replication, and other database issues.
• Perform database related development as dictated by departmental or project demands.
• Design and perform data migrations and data transformations as required by application delivery teams or business customers.
• Develop and maintain documentation, diagrams, and procedures and complies with company's change management control process.
• Ensure that all database designs adhere to industry best practices.
• Work with application delivery teams during database design.
• Possess substantial knowledge about application and database performance profiles of all databases under their management.
• Represent the IT department in terms of database expertise in coordination with other departments.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:

Type of Experience - MySQL Years of Experience

• Provision MySQL instances, both in clustered and non-clustered configurations - 8+ Years.
• Understanding of MySQL's underlying storage engines, such as InnoDB and MyISAM - 8+ Years.
• Proficient in writing and optimizing SQL statements - 8+ Years.
• Experience with replication configuration in MySQL - 6+ Years.
• Managing MySQL User Accounts - 7+ Years.
• Backing Up, Copying, and Recovering MySQL Databases - 7+ Years.
• Tuning the MySQL Server - 7+ Years.
• Running Multiple MySQL Servers - 7+ Years.
• MySQL Database Maintenance and Repair - 7+ Years.
• Developing of SQL scripts for stored procedures and functions - 5+ Years.
• Experience with physical database characteristics such as table design, relationships, data partition, efficient indexes, storage allocation, capacity planning etc. - 7+ Years.
• Knowledge of de-facto standards and best practices in MySQL - 7+ Years.
• Knowledge of limitations in MySQL and their workarounds in contrast to other popular relational databases.
• Linux/Unix platforms and Linux Shell scripting - 5+ Years.
• Display strong ability in troubleshooting complex issues - 5+ Years.
• Experience in performance tuning and load testing of database - 7+ Years.
• Knowledge of database security concepts - 5+Years.
• Experience with high availability database and application architectures - 3+ Years.

• MySQL Certification.
• You have experience with NoSQL databases, such as Couchbase, MongoDB etc.
• Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Reporting Services or other enterprise reporting tool.
• Experience with clustered MySQL databases and high availability architectures.
• SQLServer 2012 experience.
• Experience with agile software development such as SCRUM and XP.
• Experience with high availability database and application architectures.
• Experience with physical database characteristics such as table design, relationships data partition, efficient indexes, storage allocation, capacity planning etc. - 5+ Years.
• Display strong ability in troubleshooting complex issues - 5+ Years.
• Experience in performance tuning and load testing of database - 5+ Years.
• Knowledge of database security concepts - 5+ Years.

Special Skills:

• Analytical and problem solving skills.
• Developing and/or creating new or more effective ideas, approaches, etc.
• Developing and executing short-range plans/decisions.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment across a broad range of circumstance.

Ampcus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, age, protected veterans or individuals with disabilities.