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Job overview and responsibilities
United Offshore SQL DBA Team supports critical after hours work to support timely releases and patching activities overnight along with 8pm-8am rotational on call to support for very critical DB operations monitoring and incident support. SQL DBA team in India works along with offshore development teams in code review and troubleshooting for performance issues essential for United’s 24x7 technology support structure. They are actively engaged in migration projects for SQL desupported version remediation and supporting upgrades.Team also works on AWS setup and support across all areas of clould migrations and production support.
- SQL Server Production Support
- Off-hours support for all Tier1 – Tier5 SQL Databases and InstancesCreate physical database structures based on physical design for development, test, and production environments
- Coordinate with systems engineers to configure servers for DBMS product installation and database creation
- Install, configure, and maintain DBMS product software on database and application servers
- Assist in the consultation to application development teams on DBMS product technical issues and techniques
- Implement monitoring procedures to maximize availability and performance of the database, while meeting defined SLAs
- Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve database problems
- Communicate the required downtime with the application development teams and systems engineers to implement approved changes
- Identify, define and implement database backup / recovery and security strategies
- Install and support of DBMS (Database Management Systems) software and tools
- Perform various database activities which include monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting, with appropriate supervision, if required
- Review deployment for all SQL database changes
- Complete pre-deployment code reviews with application teams as requested
- Review and provide feedback on all SQL code updates
- Work with deployment manages on dates and time for releases including assignments
- Performance Tunning and code review
- Migrations and DB setup (Cloud-AWS, SQL)
- Patching of all SQL Server and some Couchbase
- Work with application teams to create schedule
- Send advanced and timely notifications for database instances to be patched
- Conduct database patching including any troubleshooting and validation post patching
- Code release and Techincal Documentation
- Backup Recovery and DR
This position is offered on local terms and conditions. Expatriate assignments and sponsorship for employment visas, even on a time-limited visa status, will not be awarded. This position is for
United Airlines Business Services Pvt. Ltd - a wholly owned subsidiary of United Airlines Inc.