Responsibilities: 

•  Define, document and clearly articulate standards, best practices, technology decisions to stakeholders. 
• Monitor performance and health of the client databases and provide optimum database throughput. 
• Provide technical guidance and thought leadership to tech leads and developers. 
• Concern with backups, security, patches and replication on production environments. 
• Develop, manage and test back-up and recovery plans. 
• Communicate regularly with technical, applications and operations to ensure database integrity security. 
• Own and manage the security and disaster recovery aspects of the databases 
• Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA) will be an added advantage 

Competencies: 

•  99.9% uptime of databases , 100% integrity across all client databases by monitoring and troubleshooting. 
• Should possess a bachelor's degree in computer science or certification in database stream. 
• Four years hands on industry experience working as a DBA specially with MS SOL server. 
• Knowledge in data backups, recovery, security, integrity and performance optimization at DBA capacity. 
• Sound knowledge in database design, documentation and TSOL query writing. 
• Sound knowledge and hands on experience with DBA tools and industry leading third party tools. 
• Sound problem solving and analytical skills. 
• Sound leadership and communication skills (written, verbal and presentation) is mandatory. 
• Familiarity with programming languages would be a plus. 
• Knowledge and experience on data warehousing and their concepts would be a plus.