Senior DBA 1

About Aurigo

Aurigo is an American technology company founded in 2003 with a mission to help public sector agencies and facility owners plan, deliver and maintain their capital projects and assets safely and efficiently. With more than $300 billion of capital programs under management, Aurigo’s award-winning software solutions are trusted by over 300 customers in transportation, water and utilities, healthcare, higher education, and government on over 40,000 projects across North America. We are a privately held corporation headquartered in Austin, Texas, USA, with software development and support centers in Canada and India. We are proud to be Great Place to Work Certified three times in a row. If you are ready to work for a fast-paced software company growing exponentially and interact with some of the brightest minds in the industry to solve real problems, we want to talk to you.

Responsibilities :

• Manage a small team of DBAs, coach them on latest DBA technologies and guide them with day-to-day work and complex troubleshooting aspects being available to them whenever required.
• Stay abreast of latest database SQL and NoSQL trends & technologies and work on implementing the same as per business requirements at Aurigo
• Put security first and maintain the complete database environment at Aurigo
• Manage database vulnerability management program
• Prepare knowledge base articles, presentations to management periodically and participate in monthly/bi-weekly program/project and environment reviews
• Work on cost optimization, high availability and reliability architecture deployment and maintenance on SQL (Microsoft SQL server) and NoSQL (DynamoDB & MongoDB) database technologies
• Ensure 100% uptime of the database environment in Cloud
• Participate in company hackathon events and intercompany hackathon events or game days organized by top global cloud service providers. 
• Participate in production environment troubleshooting activities when required
• Participate in calls with customers if required to cater to any database specific requirements
• Participate in On-Call rotation 2 weeks in a month
• Participate in monthly production patching activity one Saturday every month (compensatory-off will be provided)

Requirements:

• B. E/ B. Tech (CS, IS, IT, ECE) / MCA
• Analyze Queries and Stored Procedures, tune the SQL for optimal performance on Microsoft SQL Server.
• Strong Experience and hands-on in MSSQL database modelling, administration, tuning and troubleshooting performance problems
• Knowledge on Replication strategies, log shipping and Mirroring.
• Strong knowledge on database backup & recovery.
• Implementation and maintenance of Always-On High Availability Disaster Recovery setup on Microsoft SQL Server for Business Continuity Plan, “on-premises” or on “Cloud”
• Understanding of streaming data analytic and resources
• Hands on experience with NO SQL databases (DynamoDB, mongo dB etc.)
• Experience with cloud databases and cache software.
• Hands On Experience on SSAS and SSRS.
• Monitor Production Servers for optimal performance
• Experience in Data Migration between disparate systems. Preferably SSIS.
• Powershell scripting for administration and job automation required.
• Exposure to AWS cloud infrastructure and database tuning on Amazon RDS.
• Strong exposure on database configuration for SaaS applications.
• MCSE/MCSA certification preferred.
• Advanced knowledge of database structure and theory
• Familiarity with reporting tools.

Competencies