DIRECT CLIENT REQ - Houston, TX - Sybase + SQL Engineer

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Client:              Oil and Gas (Will let you know who the client is before submitting your candidate)

Location:         Houston, TX

Rates:              $50/hr C2C All Inclusive

 

************Local candidates and candidates with Oil and Gas experience will be given preference **********************************

 

 

FSD Statement of Work

Engagement Title: Sybase& SQL Engineer

Location: Houston, TX

Duration of contract:: 6 Months

Required start date: Immidiatley

Will candidates with 30 day notice period considered?  No

Contract Description

Sybase and MS SQL Server database operations supporting natural gas, power, and NGL trading and scheduling business. Environments include Production, Disaster Recovery, Development and Test.   This IT&S job role encompasses 3rd and 4th level support for the Sybase and MS SQL Server database environments. Responsibilities include systems monitoring and performance tuning, patch and enhancement deployments, configuration of new instances, and daily trouble shooting of Sybase or Microsoft database components and processes. Ongoing duties involve the support of Energy Trading software and other Sybase database environments running on Sun Solaris and MS SQL Server database environments running on Windows 2003 64-bit.

Responsibilities

Administration and Monitoring of Sybase and MS SQL Server database environments. Responsibilities include systems state and performance monitoring, tuning, patch migration and enhancement deployments, production code deployments, instance restarts, and daily trouble shooting of database components. Some of these activities will have to be performed after hours and on weekends to minimize downtime for users. There will be a 24/7 on-call rotation of approximately 1-2 weeks per month. Configuration of new instances added to all environments.  Assist development staff with procedure and package performance tuning. Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT) responsibilities for Sybase or MS SQL Server database components in the Production environment.

Deliverables

Ensure 99.99% reliability of the Sybase and MS SQL Server trading databases in the Production environment.

Experience & Knowledge

Required experience: 7+ years of current System & Application Sybase DBA experiences 5+ years of current System & Application MS SQL Server DBA experiences Knowledge of system-level tables & views Allocate system storage and plan future capacity Create and modify database objects and storage structures Install, upgrade and patch multiple versions of Sybase ASE RDBMS Install, upgrade and patch multiple versions of MS SQL Server RDBMS Backup and recovery skills (analysis, strategies and options) and implementation (scripts, automation, verification). Database and application performance tuning Knowledge of shell scripting (KSH, CSH) Experience in high availability and disaster recovery solutions Solid T-SQL, Trigger, and Stored Procedure coding and tuning skills Work closely with third-party vendor for Software releases Coordinate database maintenance with application support teams    Ideal to have: Knowledge of and experience with Sybase ASE 15.x Experience with ASE 15.x Cluster Edition and Partitioning setup and implementation Knowledge of and experience with MS SQL Server 2008 Exposure to third-party Change Management Tools, such as ClearCase, Remedy, etc... Able to manage databases in UNIX/Solaris environment Able to manage databases in Windows environment Knowledge of Veritas Cluster Services Experience in MS Analysis Services 2+ years experience as an Oracle DBA Knowledge of and experience with Oracle 11g Exposure to third-party Energy Trading software such as Sungard’s Entegrate, Structure Consulting Group’s nMarket products ITIL Foundation Certification Sybase and/or Microsoft DBA Certification

Skills/Behaviours

Describe the essential and the preferred skills and behaviours required for this role. 1.         Ability to work in a collaborative team environment. 2.         Ability to work in an environment oriented towards a zero downtime target. 3.         Ability to follow established processes and guidelines for Change Management, Release                 Management, Problem and Incident management. 4.         Attention to details 5.         Strong and demonstrable problem solving skills 6.         Good time management and project planning skills 7.         Ability to work under pressure 8.         Exceptional documentation skills 9.         Exceptional communication skills 10.       Strong technical mentoring skills 11.       Exceptional ability to think out of the box 12.       Ability to coordinate a wide range of assignments by managing dependencies,            expectations and effectively communicate with stakeholders. 13.       Ability to work alternating shifts M-F (7A-4P or 9A-6P). 14.       Ability to be apart of the BCP/DR Team that has the potential to relocate (temporarily) to              Austin during hurricane season for imminent Gulf Coast / Galveston area landfalls – team            mobilized up to 96 hours prior to landfall

Any Other Relevant Information

Extra Hours Applicable: Yes some overtime will be required – on-call support after hours on rotation basis

 

 

 

Jenny Chopra

Sr. Technical Recruiter| Triad Resources, Inc. | ...the people side of technology

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