Database Administrator - Cloud Platform / Infrastructure

Are you looking for a role that motivates and challenges you? Are you ready for an opportunity for growth? Do you want to work on teams where people roll up their sleeves to take on tough problems together, and regularly blow the doors off our clients with their outstanding teamwork? If you answered yes to those questions, 3Cloud might just be for you!

At 3Cloud, we hire people who aren’t afraid to experiment or fail. We hire people who are willing to give direct and candid feedback to their managers, leaders, and team members. We hire people who jump at those opportunities because they care about our collective growth and success. We hire people who challenge and hold each other accountable for living 3Cloud’s core values because they know that it will result in amazing experiences and solutions for our clients and each other.

3Cloud is looking for an experienced Database Administrator who is comfortable managing multiple deadlines and varied customer requests. A strong OS background is preferred due to the many migration assessments and implementations required by the position. Experience with Azure is a must, along with flexible and creative analytical skills to fit the solution to the customer needs.

Responsibilities

• Work as a DBA for multiple customers, helping with Database Migrations, High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions, SQL and Windows Clustering solutions, Monitoring, Backup/Recovery solutions, and Performance Tuning including remediation on performance blockers
• Manage multiple long-term database (Azure data services) projects at the same time
• Able to scope, plan, implement, and document and/or present a solution to the customer
• Provide cost effective Azure platforms to meet customer requirements
• Be able to work with Development, Test, and Production environments to support customer requirements at each level of work
• Assist with Security definitions and roles for various users in the environments and support Azure Infrastructure team in provisioning data services in Azure cloud
• Manage client expectations with regards to scope, cost, and timeline.
• Author high quality project documentation and other project artifacts, including written case studies detailing use cases and project specifics
• Be an effective technical mentor to more junior level teammates.
• Deliver complex projects on-time and within budget, proactively identifying and mitigating gaps and risks.
• Expand your knowledge in multiple tools and technologies.
• Foster a problem-solving culture that resolves issues through collaboration and partnerships with other parts of the organization.
• Support internal 3Cloud objectives that help advance data services design and techniques.
• Support the Sales Team on Presales efforts to define scope estimates for most projects when bandwidth allows.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer, engineering, data science or a related field; or equivalent work experience
• Has the ability to work both strategically and tactically in different customer environments.
• Must be EXTREMELY detail oriented and self-directed
• Must be able to produce high-quality documentation for both internal and external distribution
• Must have multiple years working with a major RDBMS (Oracle/SQL Server) – preference given to deep experience with Microsoft products
• Should have done a few databases migration from different cloud platform/or on-prem to Azure.
• Moderate experience with OS clustering concepts and technologies.
• Understanding of security roles and how to implement database security
• Advanced level experience at the implementation and appropriate use of the following HA/DR technologies: Always On AG, Replication, Log shipping, Mirroring
• Advanced level experience with database objects/stored procedures
• Advanced level experience with performance tuning, monitoring, and trouble shooting.
• Have a strong understanding of Cloud Infrastructure solutions and the delivery/execution of how they are implemented using IaC (Bicep or Terraform)
• Drive to maintain knowledge of the latest technologies and how they may impact existing 3Cloud offerings
• Understanding of cloud ecosystem and leading-edge cloud emerging technologies.
• Performance analysis, troubleshooting and remediation techniques.
• Strong analytical problem-solving ability.
• Strong presentation, written and verbal communication skills.
• Self-starter with the ability to work independently or as part of a virtual project team

Additional Preferred Experience:

• You have over 2 years of experience in the following:
• Designing and implementing logical and physical data models for cloud and hybrid data warehouse environments
• Implementing data architectures to support a variety of data formats and structures including structured, semi-structured and unstructured data
• Implementing multiple full life-cycle data warehouses
• Understanding of data architectures required to support data integration processing
• Data modeling technologies such as ER/Studio, ER/Win or similar
• Microsoft Azure Data Platform services including Azure Data Lake Store, Azure Storage, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL database, Logic Apps, APIs
• Data profiling and creation of source to target mappings
• Ability to provision and configure Azure data service resources

Don’t meet every single requirement? At 3Cloud we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway.

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