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CLS Group · 1 day ago

Senior SQL Server Database Administrator

Iselin, New Jersey, United States

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$140K/yr - $170K/yr

CLS is a trusted party in the global FX ecosystem, providing essential infrastructure for currency transactions. They are seeking a Senior SQL Server Database Administrator to lead the database team, ensuring operational support for their internal Microsoft SQL database systems and collaborating with various teams to enhance service delivery.

Financial Services

Responsibilities

Ensure CLS internal database systems are managed to the highest standard by following industry best practice

Demonstrate leadership, inspire team members, create a positive and collaborative work environment, and demonstrate leadership by example

Identify database best practices to meet internal customer requirements that maximise the performance and reliability of the database management systems

Recommends performance and efficiency improvements for databases systems across the organisation

Assists in the research and review of new database feature-functionality, supports proof-of-concept evaluations and enhancements to existing solutions

Demonstrate good problem management ownership and prevention of SLA breach under Incident / Problem Management processes

Actively contribute to the development of existing and new IT process and procedures to enhance service transition and service operation lifecycle stages

Demonstrate self-starter capabilities identifying areas of improvement and taking action in order to address

Provides Senior Operational Support for the Windows / SQL Server and Postgres database environment. Responsibilities include - Database monitoring, backup / restores, develop, and maintain daily automated checks/maintenance tasks, performance, and capacity management, creating optimisation plans and building new database instances, applying service packs and planning/performing database migrations. Manage and escalate as appropriate

Provides lead support for database team, managing team assignments, mentoring and developing database administrators. Provides technical leadership and represent team on design and solutioning meetings

Investigate and progress Incident, Service Request and Problem tickets. Manage and escalate as appropriate

Monitoring, Supporting, and deploying ETL jobs and SSIS packages

Configuring and managing RDS instances (AWS)

Work with internal CLS teams (including ETL team and Quantitative Analysis Group) and external vendors to identify/propose solutions and support any fixes that are required as part of service improvement

Implements and maintains security policies and auditing compliance at the database level to ensure the protection of the firm’s sensitive data. Develops and adheres to patch management and upgrade strategies

Follow the CLS Change Management procedure and other standard practices in installing, configuring and supporting databases and relates items in Test and Production environments

Ensure that the BAU Service is prioritised and all faults, incidents and problems are responded to in an efficient manner without negatively impacting SLAs and reporting metrics in place

Upgrade or maintain software at a time when the impact to the business is minimised

Execute the failover for the database and application services as required. Maintain failover scripts and propose performance and efficiency improvements. Participate in regular on-site Disaster Recovery testing activities (up to 4 tests per year)

Create, maintain, and review operational process and support documentation

Provide 24/7 on-call cover on a rotational shift basis. Participate in planned weekend work as required

As required, provide representation for DBA team’s Changes at the daily stand-up and weekly CAB meetings. Ensure other team’s Changes do not have an impact on the delivery of the database services

Qualification

Microsoft SQL ServerDatabase disaster recoveryAWS RDSPostgreSQLAnalytical skillsITIL frameworkLeadership experienceTechnical writingPowerShell scriptingSSISMonitoring systemsBanking systems knowledge

Required

Must have strong Operational Support experience of Microsoft SQL Server in an Enterprise Windows environment

Must have a solid understanding of database disaster recovery technologies including SAN / Mirroring / Always-On / SQL replication

Knowledge of database structure languages, such as SQL

Experience working in AWS platform and utilizing RDS, SQL Server and Postgres

Operational DBA support experience on PostgresSQL

Must have proven leadership experience

Experience assigning BAU and project work to team ensuring deadlines are met

Ability to plan and implement technical changes without unexpected disruption to the service and with minimal oversight

Experience of providing production support activities for business-critical databases / applications

Strong documentation and technical writing skills

Must have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

Experience in working with ticket systems such as ServiceNow and a solid understanding of service priorities and SLA's

Strong experience of providing cross training on technologies and operational processes to colleagues

Ability to collaborate effectively with other technical and business teams to support the service

Have excellent time management and organisational skills

Knowledge of ITIL framework (good understanding of Incident, Problem, Change processes)

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Prior IT Operational Support experience across business-critical Production infrastructure, applications, and database services

Preferred

Knowledge of Banking systems and related industry standard practices

Experience in working and configuring monitoring systems such as Dynatrace

PowerShell scripting experience

Experience with Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)

Knowledge of EMC Networker / Rubrik

Microsoft SQL 2016, 2019, 2022 certification

AWS Certified Database — Specialty

ITIL certification

Benefits

Holiday - UK/Asia: 25 holiday days and 3 ‘life days’ (in addition to bank holidays). US: 23 holiday days.

2 paid volunteer days so that you can actively support causes within your community that are important to you.

Generous parental leave policies to ensure you can enjoy valuable time with your family.

Parental transition coaching programmes and support services.

Wellbeing and mental health support resources to ensure you are looking after yourself, and able to support others.

Employee Networks (including our Women’s Forum, Black Employee Network and Pride Network) in support of our organisational commitment to embrace and always be learning more about inclusivity.

Hybrid working to promote a healthy work/life balance, enabling employees to work collaboratively in the office when needed and work from home when they don’t.

Active support of flexible working for all employees where possible.

Monthly ‘Heads Down Days’ with no meetings across the whole company.

Generous non-contributory pension provision for UK/Asia employees, and 401K match from CLS for US employees.

Private medical insurance and dental coverage.

Social events that give you opportunities to meet new people and broaden your network across the organisation.

Annual flu vaccinations.

Discounts and savings and cashback across a wide range of categories including health and retail for UK employees.

Discounted Gym membership – Complete Body Gym Discount/Sweat equity program for US employees.

All employees have access to Discover – our comprehensive learning platform with 1000+ courses from LinkedIn Learning.

Access to frequent development sessions on a number of topics to help you be successful and develop your career at CLS.