Cloud Database Administrator

Who We Are – MassMutual Romania

MassMutual Romania, with offices in Bucharest and Cluj, was established to build an in-house team with expertise in application development and support, quality assurance and data science to support MassMutual and its affiliates, including Barings, in creating digital products and technology solutions.

Barings, as part of the MassMutual group, is a $345+ billion global financial services firm dedicated to meeting the evolving investment and capital needs of its clients and customers. Through active asset management and direct origination, Barings provides innovative solutions and access to differentiated opportunities across public and private capital markets. A subsidiary of MassMutual, Barings maintains a strong global presence with business and investment professionals located across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.

If this vision excites you, come join us and become a MassMutual Romania / Barings team member. This is a great opportunity to be part of the transformational journey at MassMutual Romania. As we continue to grow our business and look for new ways to engage with customers, technology will be one of the most important enablers to our success and you can be a part of it.

Job Description

Barings' Global Technology and Operations division is seeking an experienced individual to join its Database Administration (DBA) team.

As a member of the DBA team, you will be part of a fast-paced environment that services developers and application support teams from around the globe.
You will be responsible for working with these application teams to help with coding standards, performance tuning and implementing changes to the data tier of our business applications.

Participate in the day-to-day operations, maintenance, and support of the Barings database environments (on-prem/cloud) as well as assisting with strategic projects.
Working as part of a global team to provide 24/7 support and maintenance activities, within a rotation schedule, every 2 months.

Responsibilities:

• Day to day support of Barings' database environment. This will include the implementation of change requests and work orders through testing and into production environments.

• Work with the development teams to ensure their adherence to coding standards and help with performance tuning and troubleshooting.

• Support of Business Intelligence services such as Reporting Services, Integration Services and Analytic Services.

• Monitoring the availability of the Barings database environments to ensure uptime SLAs are being met.

• Continuously monitoring of Barings database environment and providing database performance tuning as appropriate.

• Provide 3rd level technical support for all components of the Barings database environment. This will include some off-hours work to support Barings offices located in other geographic areas. This will also include participation in an on-call rotation as well to support overnight batch processing.

• The design, implementation, and documentation of a disaster recovery solution for the SQL server environment to ensure the successful and rapid recovery of all applications.

• Adhere to, and enforce, change control processes throughout the application deployment cycle.

• Adhere to and apply security standards across the Barings database environment.

• Work with developers and application support teams on the creation and implementation of new databases, or modifications to existing ones.

• Day to Day support of Barings database environments.

Knowledge and skills:

• Experience working in environments that require strict adherence to change control policies.

• At least 3 to 5 years of development and administration experience with Microsoft SQL Server 2016 or newer edition.

• Experience using the SQL Client Tools for administering Microsoft SQL 2016 and above, or newer, databases.

• Experience working in a fast-paced development environment.

• Experience working with developers to ensure coding standards and helping with performance tuning and troubleshooting SQL code is highly desirable.

• Good knowledge and understanding of TSQL queries, Stored Procedures, Views and Functions is required.

• Experience conducting SQL code reviews and making recommendations for tuning and optimization.

• Experience with creating and testing Backup and Recovery processes for Microsoft SQL environments.

• Experience implementing high availability options such as Microsoft SQL Server Clustering, Replication, Mirroring and Always-On.

• Experience with Microsoft Windows Server 2016 and above.

• With a focus on time-to-market the associate must have time-management and organization skills to prioritize effectively and manage information flow in order to meet deadlines.

•Experience managing Azure database environments or similar AWS environments, but willingness to work on Azure.
oAzure Security management
oAzure SQL Backup and Recovery management
oAzure Databricks or similar

Preferred

• Experience of supporting Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktop.

• Microsoft PowerShell experience is required.

• Experience automating SQL routines is desirable.

• Experience working in environments that require strict adherence to change control policies.

Nice to have:

• Experience implementing CI\CD practices to optimize SQL routines a plus.

• Experience managing and supporting ADF pipelines in Azure a plus.

• Experience managing Accounts and Workspace Security in Azure Databricks Will be a plus.

• Experience managing Catalogs, Clusters, and SQL code changes in Azure Databricks will be a plus.

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