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Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients worldwide. The below Client runs through fifteen executive departments which carry out the daytoday administration of the federal government. Popular departments like Agriculture and Rural Development Civil Rights Environment Health and Human Services Natural Resources Secretary of State. This Client has opportunities in a number of career pathways including but not limited to business and administrative support education and human services IT and computers medical and healthcare natural resources law enforcement and public safety skilled trades and more. With positions in over 18 state departments your perfect career fit is waiting for you at the client. This client is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Job Title: Database Administrator 5 SQL Server
Location: Lansing MI 48933
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Contract
Work Type: Hybrid
Position Justification:
  • The position is responsible for providing Infrastructure DBA support for all SQL Server applications and it is replacement for a Senior Level DBA leaving the team.
  • The intention is to fill this position in the gap between the incumbent DBA leaves and the position is backfilled which will take several months.
  • We cannot afford not having a resource for large and complex application that we support and in that there are several Tier 1 level applications that belong in the Bureau of Labs Cancer Registry etc.
Position Summary:
  • As an Seniorlevel Database Administrator the resource participates in 24x7 software and hardware support for complex applications in several versions of SQL Server with high availabilty and Disaster Recovery support following industry and DTMB development standards.
  • Helps develop and/or submit for approval plans for installation patch management maintenance upgrades and support for the Database systems. .
  • Evaluate impacts of change and new technology recommend solutions to persistent problems and serves as Agency Services liaison to external consultants.
  • Individual tasks related to the duty:
  • Follow and enforce database standards policies & procedures. Research and draft guidelines within the boundaries of current policies and standards.
  • Monitor space allocation across databases. perform adjustments in test and development environments as necessary and as prescribed by predefined
  • standards/guidelines.
  • Calculate disk space requirements for existing and/or new installations of existing business needs
  • Modify DBMS parameters based on capacity changes.
  • Configure and execute database integrity checks.
  • Monitor for database integrity checks.
  • Install database base management software for development and test environments.
  • Install database patches and service packs for development and test environments.
  • Monitor and support clustered database environments.
  • Monitor and support database replication and backup environments.
  • Implement the strategy to release unused space or repair fragmentation in test and development environments.
  • Execute (run) scripts provided by Systems Analysts or Database Architect/Designer for creating and modifying database objects (tables views constraints
  • indexes etc.)
  • Monitor database backups to ensure recoverability. Troubleshoot backup errors.
  • Monitor database jobs and scheduled processes in development test and production environments. Participate in troubleshooting.
  • Monitor database environments (using alert logs trace files alert mechanisms and other tools) for issues and problems with database functionality
  • connectivity or downtime.
  • Follow standards and guidelines for database space allocation based on best practices and implementation considerations based on business
  • requirements.
Skills:
  • 7 years of Database administration specifically on SQL Server 16 and upwards.
  • Expertise in HA and DR solutions.
  • Transparent Data Encryption within SQL Server.
  • Over 3 years of experience creating updating and maintaining systems documentation.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

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