Database Administrator – MS SQL/MySQL

•Provide primary DBA support for installation, upgrading and maintaining MS SQL Server and MySQL databases in a web hosting environment.
•Plan, recommend, and implement capacity, growth and changes for MS SQL Server and MySQL environments.
•Proactively monitor system event and error logs as well as disk drive space available to databases and transaction logs.
•Proactively monitor and analyze system performance. Provide performance reviews and tuning recommendations for applications.
•Coordinate database server maintenance and patching, and implement infrastructure changes in accordance with IT Configuration and Change Management policies.
•Prepare documentation and manuals, perform cost/benefit analyses and prepare project status reports where required.
•Design and implement secure environments, and control and monitor user access and activity levels.
•Provide consultation and advice to application development groups to ensure that development efforts do not negatively affect production systems.
•Consult with application developers regarding optimal use of MS SQL Server and MySQL and assist in recommending/ overseeing database enhancements.
•Create and maintain MS SQL Server and MySQL objects for development, test and production environments.
•Analyze and resolve database and application issues affecting database environments.
•Test and implement new releases of MS SQL Server and MySQL related software. Plan, implement, test and document backup and recovery procedures. Participate in disaster recovery exercises.
•Participate in 24 X 7 X 365 on-call support.
REQUIREMENTS
Requirements

•Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, MIS, or comparable area.
•4+ years database administration experience.
•Broad industry experience and exposure to many databases (MS SQL Server and MySQL preferred).
•Strong database design and SQL programming skills.
•Hands-on data modeling experience for relational databases, both logical and physical data models.
•Detailed knowledge of normalization techniques.
•Experience analyzing, designing and creating databases according to specification.
•Experience with writing and tuning of database resident code such as: procedures, functions, triggers and views.
•Familiar with using a source code control tool such as Microsoft Visual Source Safe.
•Experience installing, configuring and supporting SQL Server and MySQL databases
•Working knowledge of database backup and recovery tools in MS SQL Server and MySQL.
•Working knowledge of database performance tuning and configuration tools in MS SQL Server and MySQL.
•Excellent communication and facilitation skills.
•Excellent writing/documentation skills.

Benefits
•Casual dress code
•Medical
•Dental
•FSA
•401K
•PTO (Personal Time Off)
•Paid Holidays

Location
Job will be based in one of three places
•Phoenix, Arizona
•Brownsville, Texas
•New York, New York