The Sr. Database Administrator (DBA) will play a critical role on our data management and architect team responsible for designing, delivering, validating and supporting complex data solutions across the entire Nielsen Media Organization. The Sr. DBA will be working with Product, Application leaders, Infrastructure, and Cloud teams to architect and support our complex data solutions which will satisfy strategic, cost, security and operational aspects of Nielsen’s data management platform needs. The Sr. DBA will also work with vendors/consultants and external support required to manage costs, licenses, feature requests and new product introduction/validation POC's.
Responsibilities
Advise on database design, tuning options, and other potential issues
Establish the baseline for system performance and detect deviation, suggesting and executing improvements to slow running queries
Maximize performance through effective hardware purchases, server configuration changes, or index/query changes
Configure monitoring utilities for databases to keep false alarms to a minimum
Verify that SLA objectives for database server topology, configuration, and maintenance are met in design and execution
Fix database service outages as they occur, including after hours and weekends
Maintain all database instances across development, staging, and production environments, handling installations and configurations as needed
Requirements
4 years of experience specific to Database Administration
Working knowledge of storage and server hardware required
PostgreSQL experience
Oracle Database experience
Understanding of production environments and capable of being on-call
Experience building and maintaining technical documentation
Experience tuning queries and RDBM’s to improve overall performance
Strong knowledge of relational database management systems
