Senior SQL Data DBA

Summary

Join NBC Sports Next as a Sr. SQL Data DBA and participate in the design, development, implementation, review, and monitoring of on-premises and cloud database environments. Collaborate with Software Development, Data Engineering, and QA teams to ensure efficient operations. Responsibilities include designing, implementing, and maintaining database servers, ensuring high availability, implementing monitoring solutions, reviewing security best practices, assisting in TSQL development, and mentoring team members. This fully remote position requires 10+ years of hands-on SQL Server experience, strong knowledge of MS SQL Server, TSQL, PowerShell, and AWS cloud services. Additional preferred skills include MySQL & Postgres knowledge and experience with BI technologies.

Requirements

• At least 10+ years of hands-on SQL Server transactional experience
• Strong Knowledge of MS SQL Server, TSQL, Power Shell, and coding best practices
• Strong Knowledge of AWS Clouds Service(s) such as RDS and Redshift
• Experience using Source Control (GitHub) to maintain scripts and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) of databases throughout SDLC
• Strong Understanding of SQL Server high availability and disaster recovery technologies, such as availability groups, backups and restores, FCI, log shipping, mirroring, and replication
• Strong SQL Server administration skills, such as backups, restores, taking and reverting snapshots, user/role security, access permissions, etc
• Strong Understanding of SQL Server concurrency features, transactions, and locking
• Expert Experience in SQL performance analysis and optimization (tuning / optimization)
• Experience with SQL Server debugging and tracing
• Experience using Atlassian Jira & Confluence
• Familiarity with BI technologies, such as ETL, data warehousing, SSAS/OLAP, data mining, and big data technologies
• Associates degree, preferably in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, maintain, and monitor database servers across environments including but not limited to Production, QA, and Development Environments
• Ensure High Availability and meet SLAs for systems across environments
• Design and implement monitoring solutions to achieve HA and SLA goals
• Reviews and audit all environments for best practices in security
• Assist in TSQL development (check-in, review, build, testing, and deployment) and support of SQL CI/CD life cycle
• Assist developers in best practices for writing queries / procedures
• Assist in system capacity planning
• Creates and implements new environments based on the needs of the business
• Asist in Project, Capacity, and Infrastructure Planning
• Mentor & lead team members in best practices for administration and development

Preferred Qualifications

Strong Knowledge of MySQL & Postgres preferred

Benefits

Fully Remote: This position has been designated as fully remote, meaning that the position is expected to contribute from a non-NBCUniversal worksite, most commonly an employee’s residence