GLOTECH, Inc., founded in 1995, is a privately and minority-owned company serving military, federal and commercial clients.  We are a successful Information Technology firm with a large staff currently providing superior information technology and advanced engineering services around the world. Our success is built on attracting and retaining quality staff through a highly competitive benefits package with a special focus on continuing career development and corporate financial support. We also maintain a collegial working environment and offer our staff opportunities to improve and enhance their skills. 

GLOTECH is committed to a comprehensive employee benefits program that helps our employees stay healthy, feel secure and maintain a work/life balance. We provide medical dental and vision care, disability insurance (short and long term), Life & AD&D Insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care and Commuter Transportation and Parking Reimbursement), and Employee Assistance Programs. Additionally, we provide Annual Leave, Sick Leave, Holiday Pay, Educational Assistance, Certification /Training Reimbursement, and a 401(k)-retirement savings contribution plan (with employer match).

This is a talent pipeline opening.  We are building a network of qualified talent for general consideration of future full time or temporary Senior SQL Server Database Administrator job openings. 

GLOTECH is seeking a Senior SQL Server DBA to support the corporate office of United Parks & Resorts operation in Orlando, Florida. 

The Senior SQL Server DBA will be responsible for the implementation, configuration, maintenance, and performance of critical SQL Server systems, to ensure the availability and consistent performance of our corporate applications. This is a hands-on position requiring solid technical skills as well as excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the development and sustainment of SQL Server environments (DEV, QA, UAT and PROD), ensuring its operational readiness (security, health, and performance), performance tuning and data modeling in support of multiple development teams and 3^rd party vendor products. The environments support an enterprise application suite of OLTP and OLAP solutions. The individual must be capable of working independently and collaboratively with the ability to quickly understand complex data solutions and schema.  Experience with all supported versions of SQL Server is required.

• Manage SQL Server databases through multiple product lifecycle environments, from development to mission-critical production systems.
• Configure and maintain database servers and processes, including monitoring of system health and performance, to ensure high levels of performance, availability, and security.
• Apply data modeling techniques to ensure development and implementation support efforts meet integration and performance expectations.
• Assist with design and implementation of a data loading tool to move sanitized data from production to a non-production environment
• Independently analyze, solve, and correct issues in real time, providing problem resolution end-to-end.
• Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes
• Assist developers with complex query tuning and schema refinement.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to provide 24x7 support for critical production systems.
• Perform scheduled maintenance and support release deployment activities after hours.
• Share domain and technical expertise, providing technical mentorship and cross-training to other peers and team members.
• Monitor and apply SQL Server Service Packs and Cumulative Updates

• 5+ years MS SQL Server Administration experience required
• Performance Tuning and Optimization, using native monitoring and troubleshooting tools
• Strong experience with backups, restores and recovery models
• Expert level t-SQL tuning
• Experience developing and maintaining SSIS packages
• Experience migrating sanitized data from production to non-production environments
• Knowledge of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options for SQL Server
• Experience working with Windows server including Windows Clustering
• Ability to organize and plan work independently
• Ability to work in a rapidly changing environment
• Ability to multi-task and context-switch effectively between different activities and teams
• Strong experience with AlwaysOn Availability Groups
• In depth knowledge and experience with SQL Server replication
• Experience or good working knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure/AWS) with both VMs and DBaaS 
• Hybrid schedule, with availability to work onsite in Orlando, FL, as needed

Nice to have

• Experience with the following tools
  • Spotlight Monitoring
  • Host Monitor
  • Litespeed
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Opsgenie
  • Microsoft Teams
• Experience with MySQL
• Experience with Oracle
• Experience with SAP BusinessObjects
• Experience with tools (such as ER Studio) to reverse engineer databases
• Experience with one or more object-oriented programming language
• Strong PowerShell skills

GLOTECH, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer - Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.