Database Administrator 4

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Ardent Technologies, Inc. is an accredited small business providing a full range of IT support services, cybersecurity services, staff augmentation, fiscal management, and administrative support. Headquarters in Dayton, OH, near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ardent has served federal, state/local government, commercial, and higher education markets across the US since 2000. Our commitment to excellence, integrity, and client satisfaction drives our growth—and yours.

Job Description

• We are currently seeking a highly motivated “ Database Administrator 4” to join our team for a project with our esteemed client. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in “Prometheus ,Grafana ,OEM ,New Relic ,NoSQL ,SQL ,DDL ,DML ,SQL Server , Java ,RESTful,API ,ORM ,Object Relational Mapping ,lazy,IBM DB2 ” with a proven track record of delivering high-quality results.
  
  

Skill

Required /Desired

Amount

of Experience

Experience administering and tuning high-traffic production databases (e.g., SQL Server)

Required

10

Years

Expert-level knowledge of SQL, DDL, DML, and advanced tuning techniques (indexing, partitioning, materialized views, execution plan analysis

Required

10

Years

Experience with database monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OEM, New Relic) and building custom alerting thresholds

Required

10

Years

Proficiency in relational data modeling (3rd Normal Form) and NoSQL modeling concepts

Required

10

Years

Hands-on, professional development experience with Java 11 (or higher) in the Windows environment.

Required

5

Years

Experience with Java Persistence API (JPA), SQL, RESTful web services and JUnit

Required

5

Years

Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs for data delivery

Required

5

Years

In-depth understanding of Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) and its performance implications, including cache management, lazy vs. eager

Required

5

Years

Experience working IBM DB2 database

Highly desired

0

The ideal candidate will have the skills specified below:

• Highly skilled at database design, installations, and conversions, specifically with SQL Server databases.
• Document data flows, API specifications, and database operational procedures.
• Implement best practices for efficient data access, transactions, and database interaction within a Java (Back End) and Angular (Front End) environment.
• Skilled data dictionary analysis and design, and data model analysis and design.
• Responsible for database backup and recovery procedures, access security and database integrity, physical data storage design, and data storage management.
• Engage in ongoing process improvement.
• Skilled data dictionary analysis and design, and data model analysis and design.
• Experience and knowledge in supporting the application system development life cycle.
• Responsible for data dictionary backup and recovery.
• Responsible for the definition of standards of data dictionaries.
• Perform performance tuning.
• Monitor database performance and space requirements.
• Schedule and monitor end-of-day data warehousing jobs.
• Evaluate and perform database upgrades.
• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Strong communication skills, both written and spoken.
• Logical data modeling techniques.
• Knowledgeable in data analysis and database management techniques.
• Execution of all responsibilities with little direct supervision of the Team Lead.
• Author scripts to perform backup, restore, and monitoring tasks.
• Identify and track issues, risks, and action items.
• Experience in Java solution development in the Windows environment.
• Experience with Java Persistence API (JPA), SQL, RESTful web services, and JUnit.
• Experience designing, developing, and consuming RESTful APIs for seamless integration.
• Strong experience with SQL Server Database.
• Experience with IBM DB2 database will be desired
  
  

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Equal Opportunity Employer

Ardent Technologies, Inc., is an equal opportunity employer that relies on the strength of a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.