Senior Database Administrator, Officer
State Street · Posted Oct 25
Investment servicing, custody, asset management, and trading solutions for institutional investors
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About the role
Charles River Development, a State Street Company, runs a Database Operations team responsible for the design, administration, and daily operation of critical systems supporting clients' Production, Disaster Recovery, and Test environments in a hybrid on-premise and cloud database environment with heavy emphasis on SQL Server and Azure SQL Database. The team is growing rapidly using cutting-edge technical solutions. This senior DBA role covers day-to-day database administration, design and implementation of maintenance and optimization tasks, and researching and assisting teams to make their applications and databases cloud ready, based in the Hyderabad office.
What you will do
- Ensure the availability and optimization of the MSSQL, Azure SQL databases both on-premises and in the cloud.
- Make sure to follow technical standards and operational procedures to meet database performance, availability, scalability, and security requirements in both hosted and cloud environments.
- Assist in resolving priority incidents to quickly eliminate impacts, participate in root-cause analysis, and support subsequent corrective and preventative actions.
- Work closely with Database Team Lead, collaborate with Operations and other teams to optimize database performance and reliability.
- Other tasks include automating repetitive tasks, early detection and automated mitigation of potential issues using ServiceNow, PowerShell, TSQL, Kusto etc.
- Senior Database Administrator are encouraged and supported to acquire relevant Azure certifications (e.g. DP-300, AZ-900 Exam).
- Establish, maintain, and adhere to CRD technical standards, policies, and procedures.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or a related technical field)
- 9+ years of experience working with large MS SQL Server databases in a 24 x 7 x 365 production environment
- 5+ years of MS SQL Server production database administration experience supporting large environments.
- 2+ years of expert-level performance tuning experience, using all available tools and methods to investigate and make recommendations to improve slow performing queries and procedures at the database and server level.
- 1+ year of hands-on experience operating MS SQL servers and related technologies in Azure.
- Industry certifications for Azure, MS SQL Server, or related technologies strongly preferred. (e.g. DP-300, AZ-900 Exam).
- Good understanding of database encryption, high-availability, disaster recovery, database replication, and SSRS administration.
- Must be detailed oriented, have excellent written and verbal communication skills, and be an aggressive self-starter.
- A strong sense of customer service, attention to detail, and issue ownership.
- Understanding of ITIL concepts desired.
Benefits and support
- Development opportunities
- Flexible work-life support
- Paid volunteer days
About State Street
State Street Corporation is a leading global financial services holding company providing institutional investors with investment servicing, investment management, and investment research and trading. Operating in more than 100 geographic markets worldwide, the company manages and administers trillions of dollars in assets through its core divisions like State Street Global Advisors and State Street Alpha. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, it traces its origins back to 1792.
- Industry
- Financial Services
- Company size
- 51000+ employees
- Founded
- 1792-06-25
- Location
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
John Woods
Chief Financial Officer
Mostapha Tahiri
President of State Street Alpha & Chairman of Asia Pacific
Ann Fogarty
Enterprise Chief Operating Officer
President and Chief Executive Officer of State Street Investment Management
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