The Motley Fool (Alexandria, VA (outside DC)) -- Glassdoor's Best Small or Medium Sized Place to Work for 2 years running -- is looking for a full-time, onsite DBA.
Core Competencies
-Ability to document new processes and changes to the database environment
-Experience configuring, administering, or developing for MS SQL Server 2008/2012
- Excellent SQL skills and understanding of triggers, stored procedures, and indexed views
- Ability to diagnose and triage production issues without supervision
- Ability to work directly with internal customers / project owners
- Experience with performance tuning and ability to find and tune query- or server-scoped performance bottlenecks
- Test and release changes to databases in the context of a software release lifecycle
- Ruthless prioritization skills – you know the different between “urgent” and “URGENT,” and those last-minute, behemoth requests don’t even make you blink
- Equally strong commitment to leaving things better than you found them AND leaving a lasting, positive impression
- You must love data!
Considered A Plus:
- Knowledge of other databases and analytical datastores
- Experience working with Virtualization technologies (VMware, Hyper-V)
- Experience using Python for data processing and/or pipelining
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