· Works with vendors, users, applications developers and management to obtain information and develop an understanding of the needs of the organization and to overcome significant operational and/or technical issues or problems.
· Recommends potential solutions utilizing relational technology
· Assesses and assigns DBA resources and oversees quality of work produced
· Recommends reviews and approves the design of physical data models and structures
· Provides advanced level database management, support and assistance
· Collaborates with and supports data architects and application developers in the physical design of databases
· Implements the physical database design and optimization strategies
· Leads database conversion and migration activities
· Analyzes, develops and supports disaster recovery plans
· Provides back-up and recovery procedures as needed for all production and test databases
· Provides technical consultation to the development staff and other IT organizations or groups
· Works with management and user committees in setting performance objectives
· Monitors and tunes database performance to meet performance objectives
· Manages and monitors storage capacity
· Evaluates, recommends, and participates in the installation of new storage media
· Supports operations staff with their production databases
· Works with programmers to tune data access codes
· Participates in IT committees to create standards for database utilization
· Maintains strong vendor relationships to keep apprised of new database products, versions, and releases
· Escalates intractable problems to the vendor
· Evaluates, recommends, and installs new versions and releases and new database tools
· Develops plans to install, maintain, enhance, test and migrates DBMS products and supporting software
· Coordinates with engineering staff to ensure consistency in planning and implementation efforts
· Works with application developers and other organizations within the enterprise to evaluate database requirements for application software packages under consideration
· Provides second level support to the database administrator
· Responds to and assists with other problem tickets as required
· Adheres to other defined SOPs as required
· Performs other duties as assigned Qualifications
· 3 years’ experience in an IT organization and/or equivalent application or business experience is preferred
· Requires strong knowledge of logical design and physical implementation
· Requires knowledge of enterprise hardware and operations systems
· Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to deal with a diverse range of people, which includes the upper levels of corporate management
· Self-sufficient, requiring limited supervision over job knowledge, expectations and successful project completion
· Knows how to use SSMS to monitor jobs, view history, set job notifications, set operators, enable and set Database Mail up
· Proficient with T-SQL
· Knows how to use SSMS to monitor access to the server and database
· Knows how to use SSMS to monitor the database server performance
· Understands locking , CPU time, wait types , physical reads and logical reads and writes
· Understands sessions and requests
· Knows how to use SSMS and T-SQL to verify availability
· Understands database states and user access options
· Knows how to operate and configure SQL Server services
· Understands Windows Clustering
· Knows T-SQL to troubleshoot errors
· Knows SSIS to troubleshoot errors
· Responds promptly to events
· Knows how to use SSMS and T-SQL to create logins and users, and to grant permissions
· Understands SQL Server security architecture
· Knows how to use SSMS and T-SQL to create and modify databases
· Understands application needs before implementing the database
· Is familiar with Best Practices for database file structure, security, etc.
· Is familiar with pre-installation, installation and post-installation steps
· Is familiar with Best Practices as far as systems databases, security, etc.
· Knows how to use SSMS and T-SQL to run backups and recoveries
Interested candidates can email their CV along with a letter of interest to careers@cas.com.np. Please mention the position in the subject line. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.