Database Administrators

Multiple positions with 1 year demonstrated experience using VLDB, OLAP, T-SQL, PowerShell, SQL, SSRS, SSIS, VBScript, XML, & Windows required. Travel and/or relocation to unanticipated locations in US required.

Equal opportunity employer.

Database Administrators Job Duties:

establishing the needs of users and monitoring user access and security;

monitoring performance and managing parameters to provide fast responses to front-end users;

mapping out the conceptual design for a planned database;

considering both back-end organisation of data and front-end accessibility for end-users;

refining the logical design so that it can be translated into a specific data model;

further refining the physical design to meet system storage requirements;

installing and testing new versions of the DBMS;

maintaining data standards, including adherence to the Data Protection Act;

writing database documentation, including data standards, procedures and definitions for the data dictionary (metadata);

controlling access permissions and privileges;

developing, managing and testing back-up and recovery plans;

ensuring that storage and archiving procedures are functioning correctly;

capacity planning;

working closely with IT project managers, database programmers and multimedia programmers;

communicating regularly with technical, applications and operational staff to ensure database integrity and security;

commissioning and installing new applications and customising existing applications in order to make them fit for purpose.