Sr. Teradata Database Administrator with min 9 y exp Location: Bothell, WA
Duration: 6+months Rate: $50/hr Maxxxx (not nego) Excellent communication skills 2 phone interviews and hire Position Purpose Senior level database administration position involving management of multiple Teradata databases in a highly dynamic environment, Provide advanced technical expertise to a team in support of operational and project activities related to mobile business systems. Position Duties and Responsibilities Primary Duties and Responsibilities * Understand and apply advanced database administration, management and performance tuning techniques * Provide technical advice and expertise to less senior staff members * Provide 24x7 on call support as part of a scheduled rotation with other team members * Provide advanced technical troubleshooting for applications and database systems with emphasis on root cause analysis * Participate in design and application review sessions, assist with definition of computing standards and recommend policies related to those standards * Configure and tune hardware and software to insure optimum performance and resource utilization. * Provide technical advice on industry best practices for Business Intelligence systems, tactical queries, advanced analytics, and data mining. * Provide creative solutions to challenges that come up, such as capacity, physical design, or workload balancing issues. Secondary Duties and Responsibilities * Write and maintain documentation describing changes and modifications to all systems and databases * Participate in meetings and conference calls related to project and troubleshooting activities * Perform exports, backups and data extracts as required * Research solutions to various business and technical problems, evaluate alternatives and be able to present recommendations and justifications to management * Provide mentoring to fellow database administrators, systems programmers and others * Act as technical liaison in support for database related project activities * Develop strong working knowledge of key applications and their interaction with the database(s) Position Requirements Functional/Technical Skills * Previous experience in a Teradata or similar MPP environment * High degree of skill with database commands and Teradata utilities such as Manager, Administrator, SQL Assistant, TSET, Visual Explain, arcmain, TASM, etc. * Advanced knowledge of database administration tasks such as Database Console utilities, security, and workload management. * Previous experience with issues around database, client tool, and hardware upgrades. * Ability to write, debug and tune sql, macros, procedures, functions, triggers, etc. * Experience with database monitoring and tuning tools such as Teradata Manager and PMON * Solid experience with the UNIX operating system and command set as well as competence with shell scripting * Solid experience with very large, multi-workload data warehouses. * Familiarity of the capabilities of the Teradata API. Minimum Required Skills / Competencies: * Three to seven years as a database administrator working with Teradata * Experience in a large, 24x7 environment * Experience with multi-terabyte, multi-application databases * Experience with telephony billing systems and related applications * Experience with Teradata system administration (MP-RAS or LINUX) * Experience with 3rd-party add-ons such as SAS or Tibco adapters Kind Regards, Manasa Dontineni Technical Recruiter Vyshnavi Infotech Inc Voice: 703-793-1868 Ext: 218 Fax: 703-563-9200 http://www.vyshnaviinfotech.com/ <http://www.vyshnaviinfotech.com/> Certified Minority Owned Business Enterprise
