Junior Database Administrator - #1704256

Who we are:ACE Money Transfer is a UK-based company headquartered in Manchester, United Kingdom. The company is an online International remittance service provider for customers from the UK, Canada, Australia, and the European Union, including Switzerland. ACE group of companies is having a diversified portfolio, including digital wallet services in the UK and real estate, advertising businesses, and software solutions in Pakistan.Junior Database Administrator:We are looking for a talented individual to join our team in the role of aJuniorDatabase Administrator who will focus improving the efficiency and availability of ourdatabases. This candidate must have strong analysis and troubleshooting skillswhileexperience managing enterprise classdatabases will be added advantage.Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensure that databases are optimally configured, and work with development team to optimize the use of the database from the application perspective, including query profiling, table indexing, file layout, etc.
• Perform database-related performance tuning and optimization as suggested by statistics gathered, such as improving and revising poorly written queries, rebuilding/updating table indices and statistics, performing database cleanups and archives, reconfiguring default configuration, and other database tuning processes that help to improve the performance of the system.
• Setup and manage replication topologies for high availability.
• Manage database security granting/revoking permissions and ensuring security practices are in place and followed as part of the overall IT security initiative. Makes recommendations for the on-going security and dual-control aspects of database control and operation. Perform periodical audit of database access rights to prevent unauthorized access compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Setup and maintain highly available database architectures.
• Knowledge of SQL tools.
• Implement operational automation.
• Design, implement, and test disaster recovery scenarios for minimizing RTO and meeting RPO goals.
• Ensure that database backups are always current and available for all production databases, testing policies, and practices are in place and followed to minimize the risk of data loss.
• Participate in on-call rotation schedule.
• Assistteamwith application issues.
• Participate in the analysis and staging process of application developments, application deployments/installation through a release process, and other various support functions in the system development life cycle.
• Organizes large-scale complex DB projects into manageable deliverables and activities.
  
  

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or information systems; Or master's degree computer science, computer engineering, or information systems.
• 1+ years' experience in database administration
• Knowledge ofT-SQL programming writing SQL functions, procedures, and complex queries.
• Knowledge ofdatabase cluster technologies (AlwaysOn, failover clusters, mirroring, log shipping, etc.).
• Knowledge ofdata conversion technologies.
• Strong analysis and troubleshooting skills including experience with Profilers.
• Proactive self-starter with the ability drive projects through to completion.
• Knowledge ofconcurrently optimizing the DBMS for functionality, tuneability, reliability, supportability, availability, scalability and extensibility, normalization, and referential integrity.
  
  

www.acemoneytransfer.com