SQL Lead - Jobs in Halifax, NS

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This is your opportunity to join AXIS Capital – a trusted global provider of specialty lines insurance and reinsurance. We stand apart for our outstanding client service, intelligent risk taking and superior risk adjusted returns for our shareholders. We also proudly maintain an entrepreneurial, disciplined and ethical corporate culture. As a member of AXIS, you join a team that is among the best in the industry.At AXIS, we believe that we are only as strong as our people. We strive to create an inclusive and welcoming culture where employees of all backgrounds and from all walks of life feel comfortable and empowered to be themselves. This means that we bring our whole selves to work.All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or creed, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, age, marital status, civil union status, family or parental status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Accommodation is available upon request for candidates taking part in the selection process.SQL Lead

• Manage SQL and Oracle DBA Teams daily activities
• Involve in Performance Management Process
• Over see the Database Daily Maintenance
• Installation/Upgradation/Migration of Servers.
• Involve in Service Management Process
• Apply any patches or service packs for Server.
• Configure High Availability/Disaster recovery solutions.
• Configure automated alerts to send a mail to team if any issues.
• Work on incidents, change tickets and problem tickets.
• Setup Maintenance plans for Backups, Database integrity check, rebuild index and Update statistics and make sure to run all the jobs without any issues.
• Join bridge calls to troubleshoot and fix P1(SEV1) and P2 (SEV2) incidents.
• Execute all changes of DB schema and maintain controlled development database environment.
• Work closely with application developers to test, configure, and optimize servers based on application demands
• Handle database object deployment to Integration, QA, UAT, and Production
• Provide day to day support of high OLTP HA of Server databases- Identify root causes of production problems and work with developers to resolve such problems.
• Work on performance tuning like creating missing indexes.

• Responsible for physical database architecture and design, capacity planning, development, performance tuning, implementation, and support of the applications from a database perspective.
• Conduct T- Code Reviews to ensure coding standards, best practices and avoid potential performance issues.
• Attend CAB (Change Advisory Board) meeting and get proper approvals from product owners to implement DB changes.
• Document operational or newly engineered solutions properly to educate and inform the clients and DBAs from the various levels of the organization.
• Work on Writing custom stored procedures, T- queries, PowerShell scripts, views, and triggers based on requirements for DB maintenance and automate tasks.
• Work on writing technical and RCA (Root Cause Analysis) documentation.
• Work on performance tuning like provide suggestions to create indexes and tune stored procedures.
• Troubleshoot recurring problems and fix them permanently.
• Conduct and Participate DB DR Drill activity ensure to bring the DR site online if any outage at Primary site.
• Setup High-Availability as part Disaster Recovery Strategy for the Databases. (Failover Clustering, Database Mirroring, Log Shipping and Replication)
• Troubleshoot various problems that arise in a day-to-day work and fix the issues.
• Monitoring and Performance Tuning; Physical Server Level, Database level (Database settings and options) and query tuning. (Creating and maintaining those Indexes, not performing database shrinking, memory settings, monitoring CPU usage and Disk I/O activity etc)
• Knowledge on Third-Party Tools like Safe and DM
• Knowledge of Service-Now Tool for Change and Release Management Process
• Good Understanding & Knowledge on Cloud computing architecture, technical design and implementations

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