Database Administrator(SQL & Sybase - Local to Michigan ONLY)

Mandatory Requirements

Overall 10+ years of experience is required 1. Experience with The Sybase environment is 15.7 on Solaris in an X86 hardware environment 2. Having Unix background running and developing CRON jobs with command line experience3. The DBA should be familiar with Sybase ASE 15.7.

Individual tasks related to the duty:• Research, draft and recommend database standards and policies.• Coordinate with vendor support to address technical issues that could not be resolved in-house.• Participate in the planning process to match emerging technologies with future business needs.• Establish standards and guidelines for database space allocation based on best practices and implementation considerations based on business requirements.• Calculate disk space requirements for existing and/or new installations and growth based on changing business requirements.• Measure and/or forecast current capacity, gauge the growth of capacity over time, and factor in the anticipated capacity requirements to determine whether the existing infrastructure can sustain the anticipated workload. • Research, analyze, and determine appropriate hardware changes to support future application and database needs. Report recommendations to appropriate DBA specialist and/or technical services.• Review results of database integrity checks. Resolve identified issues.• Design appropriate strategy to reorganize database objects to release unused space or repair fragmentation.• Install database management software in any environment.• Install database patches and service packs in any environment.• Review, install, analyze and implement security patches to be applied to remain PCI compliant, vendor compliant, and OES compliant. • Designs the security model based on set standards. Create database user accounts and schemas in production environments based on defined and approved forms and procedures.• Define/design roles.• Define/design profiles.• Recommend standard password security policies.• Implement data encryption (13+design encryption).• Design, configure, and initiate auditing with appropriate options as needed.• Create and deploy new database in development and test environments.• Ensures and validates the integrity and quality of the scripts to be promoted to any of the environments.• Perform production data file transfers between different systems, across state agencies, federal government, vendors, etc.• Analyze and resolve database space utilization in production environments.• Analyze and resolve issues with database integrity in development, test, and production environments.• Perform troubleshooting of performance issues and provide required solution.• Analyze databases for optimal performance and investigate poorly performing SQL statements and offending database sessions. Perform database performance tuning by identifying index candidates, updating database statistics, using appropriate optimization techniques, optimizer hints and other methods. • Document tuning procedures.• Implement defined initialization parameters, database instance memory structures and physical data layout for optimal performances.• Monitor database jobs and scheduled processes, perform troubleshooting and provide resolution for any issues with jobs/processes as necessary. Document solution and provide root cause analysis.