SQL Database Engineer

ENGINEERING, Information Technology
KUWAIT
23 July 2024
Full Time
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Job Description

Working across the globe, V2X builds smart solutions designed to integrate physical and digital infrastructure from base to battlefield. We bring 120 years of successful mission support to improve security, streamline logistics, and enhance readiness. Aligned around a shared purpose, our $3.9B company and 16,000 people work alongside our clients, here and abroad, to tackle their most complex challenges with integrity, respect, responsibility, and professionalism.

Responsibilities
  • The SQL Database Engineer generally specializes in SQL Server administration Tier II & III troubleshooting of Enterprise assets in a highly virtualized environment.
  • The SQL Database Engineer manages SQL Server instances and databases on both physical and virtual servers, that are established as Stand- Alone instances, Failover Cluster Instances (FCI), and AlwaysOn Availability Groups (AG). Program: OMDAC-SWACA
  • This position offers company-paid housing and transportation, a completion bonus and tuition reimbursement program!
  • You must satisfy all host country requirements to legally work in the host country in order to be qualified for this position.
  • Responsibilities Provides capacity planning and continued database maintenance and support following industry standard best practices.
  • Monitors, tunes and analyzes database operations for all Production, Test and Development environments.
  • Uses available system performance monitoring counters, tools, and logs, as well as scripts such as T-SQL and PowerShell, to maintain and optimize SQL Server machines, instances, and databases.
  • Monitors and creates scheduled jobs for proactively monitoring the performance of all SQL Server servers and instances.
  • Administers SQL Server machines, instances and databases, and hardens them in accordance with Department of Defense Information Security Agency (DISA) Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG). Documents performance standards and work performed.
  • Provides necessary recommendations on potential system enhancements for, speed, security, scalability, integrity, and availability.
  • Other additional duties may be assigned.
  • Ability to troubleshoot servers and infrastructure equipment
  • Ability to assess networking requirements and provide solutions
  • Ability to make accurate and independent decisions under pressure
  • Experience with a customer service oriented company
  • Excellent organizational, interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to perform comfortably in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented work environment
  • Ability to successfully execute many complex tasks simultaneously
  • The work environment will be 95% indoor and 5% outdoor
  • Perform additional duties as assigned.

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