First Solar · 4 weeks ago
Administrator- Database III USA
Perrysburg, OH
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$91K/yr - $130K/yr
7+ years expFirst Solar is a leading provider of solar energy solutions, and they are seeking a Senior Database Administrator to manage and optimize their SQL Server databases. The role involves advanced database administration, ensuring availability, security, and integrity of databases, as well as mentoring team members.
Clean EnergyManufacturingSolar
Responsibilities
Lead Major initiatives and mentor other admins
Architect solutions and document policies and procedures for major database initiatives
Physical and logical database design
Recoverability - Creating and testing Backups, optimize existing database backup procedures to ensure integrity, and to improve recoverability
Integrity - Verifying or helping to verify data integrity
Security - Defining and/or implementing access controls to the data, OS and DB level security patching
Availability - Ensuring maximum uptime
Supportability – DB Server Upgrades and cumulative packs to the latest version
Performance - Ensuring maximum performance given budgetary constraints
Development and testing support - Helping programmers and engineers to efficiently utilize the database
Identify offensive SQLs and implement best practices for DBAs and development teams to follow
Working Experience on Windows Mirroring and MS Cluster and Replication
Knowledgeable of ITIL practices and methodologies (i.e. Incident, Problem, and Change Management)
Support IT Initiatives, processes, and procedures around SOX controls
Must be able to serve Database on-call on a routine basis
Global Player, work in “follow-the-sun” environment
Conducts security risk and vulnerability assessments for defined business applications or IT installations in defined areas and provides advice and guidance on the application and operation of elementary physical, procedural and technical security controls (e.g. the key controls defined in ISO27001)
Performs risk and vulnerability assessments, and business impact analysis for medium size information systems
Investigates suspected attacks and manages security incidents
Maintains knowledge of specific technical specialists provides detailed advice regarding their application and executes specialized tasks. The specialism can be any area of information or communication technology, technique, method, product or application area
Maintains awareness of opportunities provided by new technology to address challenges or to enable new ways of working. Within own sphere of influence, works to further organizational goals, using emerging technologies and products
Contributes to briefings and presentations about their relevance and potential value to the organization
Undertakes routine installations and de-installations of items of hardware and/or software. Takes action to ensure targets are met within established safety and quality procedures, including, where appropriate, handover to the client
Conducts tests of hardware and/or software using supplied test procedures and diagnostic tools. Corrects malfunctions, calling on other experienced colleagues and external resources if required
Documents details of all hardware/software items that have been installed and removed so that configuration management records can be updated
Develops installation procedures and standards, and schedules installation work
Provides specialist guidance and advice to less experienced colleagues to ensure best use is made of available assets, and to maintain or improve the installation service
Monitors service component capacity and initiates actions to resolve any shortfalls according to agreed procedures
Applies techniques to modify demand for a particular resource or service
Contributes to the availability management process and its operation and performs defined availability management tasks
Analyses service and component availability, reliability, maintainability and serviceability
Ensures that services and components meet and continue to meet all their agreed performance targets and service levels
Implements arrangements for disaster recovery and documents recovery procedures
Conducts testing of recovery procedures
Performs defined tasks to monitor service delivery against service level agreements and maintains records of relevant information
Analyses service records against agreed service levels regularly to identify actions required to maintain or improve levels of service, and initiates or reports these actions
Assesses, analyses, develops, documents and implements changes based on requests for change
Assesses and analyses release components. Provides input to scheduling
Carries out the builds and tests in coordination with testers and component specialists maintaining and administering the tools and methods – manual or automatic - and ensuring, where possible, information exchange with configuration management
Ensures release processes and procedures are maintained
Reviews system software updates and identifies those that merit action
Tailors’ system software to maximize hardware functionality
Installs and tests new versions of system software
Investigates and coordinates the resolution of potential and actual service problems
Prepares and maintains operational documentation for system software
Advises on the correct and effective use of system software
Investigates identified security breaches in accordance with established procedures and recommends any required actions
Assists users in defining their access rights and privileges, and administers logical access controls and security systems
Maintains security records and documentation
Investigates identified security breaches in accordance with established procedures and recommends any required actions
Assists users in defining their access rights and privileges, and administers logical access controls and security systems
Maintains security records and documentation
Maintains application support processes, and checks that all requests for support are dealt with according to agreed procedures
Uses application management software and tools to investigate issues, collect performance statistics and create reports
Ensures that appropriate action is taken to anticipate, investigate and resolve problems in systems and services
Ensures that such problems are fully documented within the relevant reporting system(s)
Coordinates the implementation of agreed remedies and preventative measures
Analyses patterns and trends
Collects and collates evidence as part of a formally conducted and planned review of activities, processes, products or services
Examines records as part of specified testing strategies for evidence of compliance with management directives, or the identification of abnormal occurrences
Other duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
Minimum 7 years of database administration work experience with Microsoft SQL Server
Bachelor's degree in information technology or related field or equivalent years of work experience
Minimum 7 years of database administration experience with Microsoft SQL Server
Advanced skills in database performance factors, backup, recovery, monitoring tools and tuning procedures
Advanced experience of MS SQL Server and Windows technology like Database Clustering especially complex SQL Always On clusters, Mirroring, Table Partitioning, Log Shipping, and Data Replication
Advanced skills in SQL Server Upgrades (Cumulative Packs and version upgrades)
Different ways of database backup and restore processes
Advanced skills with SQL, query writing and tuning
Advanced skills with debugging stored procedures and triggers
Advanced skills in productivity factors and ability to understand impact of problem on overall database performance
Knowledge of fault detection and resolution processes
Advanced skills in maintenance tools and procedures
Ability to define physical and logical data structures
Ability to understand the integration and work with the enterprise applications
Experience with SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services)
Experience with SSAS (SQL Server Analysis Services)
SQL Server Consolidation & Virtualization
Setting up Base Lining and Capacity Planning
Configuring Replication / Data Synchronization
SQL Server Database Monitoring – Preventive alerts
Must be able to serve Database on-call on a routine basis
Global Player, work in 'follow-the-sun' environment
Knowledgeable of ITIL practices and methodologies (i.e. Incident, Problem, and Change Management)
Support IT Initiatives, processes, and procedures around SOX controls
Preferred
Familiarity with PowerShell scripting is a plus
Working knowledge and/or prior experience in Cloud Data/Database administration a plus
Familiarity with third party backup software is a plus
Company
First Solar
First Solar manufactures thin film photovoltaic modules and provides PV power plants and supporting services.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.17BKey Investors
U.S. International Development Finance CorpMizuho Corporate Bank
2023-07-06Post Ipo Debt· $1B
2021-12-07Post Ipo Debt· $500M
2021-04-01Undisclosed
Leadership Team
Mark Widmar
CEO
Angela Younes
Office Manager/Assistant to the CTO
Recent News
2026-01-07
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