SQL DBA Consultant - 6 month contract !

Texas  ‐ Onsite
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SQL DBA Consultant

Also: $750 referral fee paid if not right fit/timing and you know someone you can refer.

The Database Consultant will provide scalability, high availability, migration and consolidation expertise on the Microsoft SQL Server platform. The Database Consultant will provide scalability, high availability, migration and consolidation expertise on the Microsoft SQL Server platform. The ideal candidate should have at least 6-8 years of enterprise database administration experience, with 5 years of experience with Microsoft SQL Server. Must have experience in administering large scale (300 GB to multi-terabyte) database architectures. A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science is required; a Master's degree would be a plus. The candidate should be a self-starter with strong leadership, professionalism, and responsible qualities.

Duties and Responsibilities
Work with Fortune 1000 clients performing scalability, high availability, migration and consolidation consulting on the Microsoft SQL Server platform as a Senior Database Consultant.
Design and implement robust database administration solutions including resource management, security, backup and recovery, performance monitoring and tuning, data management and capacity planning, planning, and implementing failover between database instances.
Design and implement scripts for instance monitoring, maintenance, backup, cloning, etc. utilizing T SQL, SSIS, Reporting Services and Analysis Services.

Knowledge and Skills
Candidate must be an experienced DBA who has worked on SQL Server (preferably SQL Server 2008 as well).
Strong experience with performance optimization and tuning with database applications is a MUST.
Hands on experience in Oracle or other RDBMS preferred.
ASP, VBScript and XML knowledge a plus.
Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Must be creative and detail oriented.
MCDBA track certifications are a plus.
Must have an excellent command of SQL Server and Windows monitoring tools, both Microsoft supplied (Profiler, Performance Monitor, MOM) and third party (BMC, DBArtisan, Quest).

Jeff Kohnle, Recruiting/Resource Mgr.
Enterprise Solutions, Inc.

Dallas, TX 75254

Start date
ASAP
Duration
6 month contract
From
Generic Network
Published at
01.11.2011
Project ID:
262657
Contract type
Freelance
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