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NTT DATA Services strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now.

We are currently seeking a Senior Database Administrator to join our team in Dallas, Texas (US-TX), United States (US).

b Responsibilities Include:

• Work independently and take a lead role on projects with minimal supervision.
• Serve as a go-to resource for questions related to database systems.
• Identify database performance and capacity requirements by analyzing current workloads and utilizing best practices.
• Serve in an architectural capacity for database high availability and disaster recovery design.
• Support team initiatives by developing tools and identifying opportunities for process automation; assist in evaluation and selection of standard tools.
• Support and build automated environment installation and setup processes.
• Interact positively with customers to support processes critical to business operations.
• Monitor and troubleshoot database instances; perform root-cause analysis; identify opportunities for improved system performance, assist development teams with implementation.
• Work closely with System Administration team to support infrastructure enhancements and maintenance. The Azure Infrastructure system administration team is a second client vendor from the team you would be hired by for supporting the client. The On-Prem team is the same company you would work for supplying expertise to a single client.
• Participate in production support on-call rotation to triage and resolve critical issues outside of business hours.
• Contribute to other team efforts as needed to support day-to-day database operations.
• Manage SQL server databases through multiple product life cycle environments, from development to mission-critical production systems.
• Migrate databases and objects to cloud data services (Azure)

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in an Information Technology environment with at least 5 years in an operational role directly supporting MS SQL Server including:
• Experience with common database administration tasks such as backup & restore, recovery models, integrity checks, and replication methods.
• Experience automating SQL Server administration tasks and workflows at scale.
• Good knowledge with SSRS, SSAS and SSIS
• Modern SQL Server High Availability & Disaster Recovery features.
• SQL Server data protection and security features.
• Azure database technologies such as Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance.
• T-SQL, PowerShell and VB Script for SQL Agent Jobs, SSIS, SSAS and automation.
• Experience with common tools utilized in our environment such as Splunk, EMC Data Domain SQL Backup, Quest Spotlight, BMC Truesight and New Relic application and infrastructure monitoring solutions and ITSM tools like, ServiceNow a definite plus.
• Prior experience working with large (2tb+) transactional databases.
• Prior experience working at scale across a large environment with hundreds to thousands of databases in-scope.
• Experience translating environments into Azure Managed Instance and other Azure technologies will be given a strong preference.

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About NTT DATA Services

NTT DATA Services is a global business and IT services provider specializing in digital, cloud and automation across a comprehensive portfolio of consulting, applications, infrastructure and business process services. We are part of the NTT family of companies, a partner to 85 % of the Fortune 100.

NTT DATA Services is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, disability, age, veteran-status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other class protected by law. To learn more, please visit
. Furthermore, NTT DATA Services will make accommodations for eligible applicants on a case-by-case basis. Please email for assistance.

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Dallas


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Fort Worth


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