REF6361W - Senior (MSSQL) Database Engineer

  • Full-time
  • Job Family Group: Technology and Operations

Company Description

Common Purpose, Uncommon Opportunity.  Everyone at Visa works with one goal in mind – making sure that Visa is the best way to pay and be paid, for everyone everywhere. This is our global vision and the common purpose that unites the entire Visa team.  As a global payments technology company, tech is at the heart of what we do.  CyberSource, a Visa company, has been and continues to be a pioneer within the e-Commerce Payment Management world. Our VisaNet network is capable of handling over 65,000 transaction messages per second for people and businesses around the world, enabling them to use digital currency instead of cash and checks. We are also global advocates for financial inclusion, working with partners around the world to help those who lack access to financial services join the global economy. Visa’s sponsorships, including the Olympics and FIFA™ World Cup, celebrate teamwork, diversity, and excellence throughout the world. If you have a passion to make a difference in the lives of people around the world, Visa offers an uncommon opportunity to build a strong, thriving career. Visa is fueled by our team of talented employees who continuously raise the bar on delivering the convenience and security of digital currency to people all over the world. Join our team and find out how Visa is everywhere you want to be.

Job Description

We’re part of the Infrastructure’s Distributed Systems Division which delivers operationally excellent open system database infrastructure.  We are the industry leader in preventative and predictive operations driven by continuous innovation through self-healing and automated ecosystems.  We design,engineer and build reliable, scale-able, secure, available and cost-effective database infrastructure solutions for our product development partners—with whom we work closely.  This is why technical expertise and people skills are important!

Members of this team are the technology owners of multiple RDBMS and NoSQL technologies which means if you join us, you will also be responsible to strategize, advance, and engineer enterprise solutions for automated build/patching and efficient administration that meet security, availability,performance, fast delivery and reporting requirements, and to support projects and products using these technologies.

The architecture, engineering, deployment and support of MSSQL database technology primarily supports the  Database Administration and Engineering in the architecture, design, development and deployment, and management of Microsoft SQL database environments. This includes the advanced to expert engineering and implementation of the following:  

  • Collaborate with all interested parties,gather requirements and provide recommendation for database standards
  • Provide technical expertise to design the most efficient and cost effective solutions for Microsoft SQL Servers
  • Install, configure, monitor, upgrade and maintain MSSQL databases in production and non-production environments
  • Work closely with other Infrastructure operations and engineering, product development, business operations, and technical operations to ensure delivery of database services within the SLA's and performance target set
  • Provide technical expertise and hands-on support in consolidation and migration of databases to new hardware and platforms
  • Implementation/Support of databases, storage structures, high-availability solutions, replication, encryption, and disaster recovery solutions
  • Manage, support and maintain Microsoft SQLServer database technology and infrastructure, adhering to the architectural guidelines and policies
  • Database administration for off the shelf and internally developed applications, ensure continuous 24x7 operation and availability in support of mission critical business applications and participating in on-call
  • Regular database capacity planning and archival solution related to database growth and system utilization, trend analysis, predictive future database resource requirements, and the structured organized reporting of the same
  • Provide DBA support for enterprise monitoring, backup, alerting, and security compliance solutions for SQL servers
  • Participate in the evaluation, selection and implementation of DBA tools to improve the effectiveness of tasks such as performance monitoring and tuning, recovery, and database change management processing
  • Proactive and reactive performance analysis, monitoring, troubleshooting and resolution of database issues
  • Write/maintain PowerShell scripts for DB automation and application maintenance
  • Advance experience with automation of managerial and repetitive DBA tasks
  • Ability to work well as a team and as an individual with minimal supervision


Qualifications

  • Bachelors/Degree in Computer Science or other technology field is a must
  • 5-7 years of DBA experience with Microsoft SQL Server
  • Strong knowledge and extensive experience with Microsoft SQL server technologies (all core areas: SSMS, SQL clustering,Data Synchronization, Encryption, Partitioning, Performance, Security,
    SSAS, SSIS and SSRS configuration) is mandatory
  • Sound knowledge of all windows and SQL utilities; strong PowerShell knowledge and experience is a plus
  • Solid understanding of network, storage,tiered application environments and security
  • Solid knowledge in database replication technologies including Always-on, GoldenGate, etc. and strong architectural/engineering skills to design systems that meet various applications High Availability and Disaster Recovery requirements
  • Have good experience in engineering processes supporting repetitive or frequent tasks in database administration or deployment
  • Solid understanding and experience in maintain MSSQL technology lifecycle, and automation of MSSQL deployment
  • Good engineering skills in developing enterprise solutions to support MSSQL in areas like backup,
    monitoring/alerting, security compliance, patching, etc.
     
  • Good interpersonal skills along with effective communication (both written and verbal) skills
  • Demonstrate ability to solve complex systems and database environment issues
  • Demonstrate ability to work in a complex organization to determine business and customer needs, providing the best solution to meet those needs
  • A good team player, leader, flexible, share knowledge, help others, collaborate well within and outside the team
  • Work experience in a Financial Institute is preferred

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