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We're Fiserv, a global leader in Fintech and payments, and we move money and information in a way that moves the world. We connect financial institutions, corporations, merchants, and consumers to one another millions of times a day - quickly, reliably, and securely. Any time you swipe your credit card, pay through a mobile app, or withdraw money from the bank, we're involved. If you want to make an impact on a global scale, come make a difference at Fiserv.
Job Title
Senior Database Administrator (MS SQL)
What does a successful Senior Database Administrator (MS SQL) do at Fiserv?
The Sr. Database Administrator maintains Microsoft SQL databases for various applications, including all client-facing environments, database backup, support of databases across internal and end-user applications. Responsibilities include improvements to database integrity through quality assurance and manages change control processes related to the SQL environments. Additional responsibilities include analyzing existing database applications for performance tuning, alerting & monitoring, working with application developers to integrate efforts with relational databases, participate in team or company projects as required, maintain state-of-the-art knowledge of existing best practices in database administration, design, and implementation, capacity planning and provides hosted data center support.
What you will do:
What you will need to have:
What would be great to have:
This role is not eligible to be performed in Colorado, California, New York or Washington.
Please note that salary ranges provided for this role on external job boards are salary estimates made by outside parties and may not be accurate.
Thank you for considering employment with Fiserv. Please:
What you should know about us:
Fiserv is a global fintech leader with 40,000-plus (and growing) associates proudly serving clients in more than 100 countries. As a FORTUNE™ 500 company, one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, and a top scorer on Bloomberg's Gender-Equality Index, we are committed to excellence and purposeful innovation.
Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:
Fiserv is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we welcome and encourage diversity in our workforce that reflects our world. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by law.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Warning about fake job posts:
Please be aware of fraudulent job postings that are not affiliated with Fiserv. Fraudulent job postings may be used by cyber criminals to target your personally identifiable information and/or to steal money or financial information.
Any communications from a Fiserv representative will come from a legitimate business email address. We will not hire through text message, social media, or email alone, and any interviews will be conducted in person or through a secure video call. We won't ask you for sensitive information nor will we ask you to pay anything during the hiring process. We also won't send you a check to cash on Fiserv's behalf.
If you see suspicious activity or believe that you have been the victim of a job posting scam, you should report it to your local FBI field office or to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center.
We're Fiserv, a global leader in Fintech and payments, and we move money and information in a way that moves the world. We connect financial institutions, corporations, merchants, and consumers to one another millions of times a day - quickly, reliably, and securely. Any time you swipe your credit card, pay through a mobile app, or withdraw money from the bank, we're involved. If you want to make an impact on a global scale, come make a difference at Fiserv.
Job Title
Senior Database Administrator (MS SQL)
What does a successful Senior Database Administrator (MS SQL) do at Fiserv?
The Sr. Database Administrator maintains Microsoft SQL databases for various applications, including all client-facing environments, database backup, support of databases across internal and end-user applications. Responsibilities include improvements to database integrity through quality assurance and manages change control processes related to the SQL environments. Additional responsibilities include analyzing existing database applications for performance tuning, alerting & monitoring, working with application developers to integrate efforts with relational databases, participate in team or company projects as required, maintain state-of-the-art knowledge of existing best practices in database administration, design, and implementation, capacity planning and provides hosted data center support.
What you will do:
- Real time monitoring
- Proactively monitor and manage a large database infrastructure across multiple applications
- Troubleshooting
- Provide expert level troubleshooting to quickly identify and resolve database related incidents across a wide array of technologies and platforms
- Responsible for participating in root cause analysis and problem resolution
- Makes technical decisions during high priority incidents focused on impact remediation and communicates clearly to call participants and leadership
- Perform updates/changes during maintenance windows
- Understand current capacity issues and the capacity planning processes
- Work with team to review change requests
- Participate in software deployments
- Assimilate organizational objectives into operational action plans
- Change Management
- Support a rigorous change control process including creating, reviewing, approving, and implementing change records for database activities
- Vendor Management
- Engage, drive, and escalate issues with database vendors related to incident management
- Problem Management
- Support a rigorous problem management process including problem creation and review database activities
- Other duties as assigned
- Participate in special projects representing database operations on new implementations or troubleshooting deep dives
- Identify opportunities for automation of manual tasks
- On Call availability is required
What you will need to have:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, business, or information technology or equivalent work experience
- At least 8+ years' experience working as a MS SQL DBA in an Enterprise server environment including working with various recent versions of MS SQL Server 2008-2019
What would be great to have:
- Experience with Cloud Technology concepts, topologies, and service models (PaaS/SaaS/IaaS, Azure, AWS) is a plus
- Knowledge and experience with database management and other monitoring tools (Foglight, Splunk, Extrahop, Dynatrace, etc.)
- Hands-on experience working with Server partition design and implement.
- Knowledge and experience on SQL Server HA/ DR design and implementation, Always-on group, replication, mirroring, and log shipping.
- Knowledge and experience on design and support large database migration strategy.
- Hands-on experience working with in-place SQL upgrade experiences on VM and physical server.
- Knowledge and experience on SQL Server service broker (or similar) troubleshooting is a plus
- SQL Certifications are preferred, MCSE Certifications are a plus
This role is not eligible to be performed in Colorado, California, New York or Washington.
Please note that salary ranges provided for this role on external job boards are salary estimates made by outside parties and may not be accurate.
Thank you for considering employment with Fiserv. Please:
- Apply using your legal name
- Complete the step-by-step profile and attach your resume (either is acceptable, both are preferable).
What you should know about us:
Fiserv is a global fintech leader with 40,000-plus (and growing) associates proudly serving clients in more than 100 countries. As a FORTUNE™ 500 company, one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, and a top scorer on Bloomberg's Gender-Equality Index, we are committed to excellence and purposeful innovation.
Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:
Fiserv is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we welcome and encourage diversity in our workforce that reflects our world. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by law.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Warning about fake job posts:
Please be aware of fraudulent job postings that are not affiliated with Fiserv. Fraudulent job postings may be used by cyber criminals to target your personally identifiable information and/or to steal money or financial information.
Any communications from a Fiserv representative will come from a legitimate business email address. We will not hire through text message, social media, or email alone, and any interviews will be conducted in person or through a secure video call. We won't ask you for sensitive information nor will we ask you to pay anything during the hiring process. We also won't send you a check to cash on Fiserv's behalf.
If you see suspicious activity or believe that you have been the victim of a job posting scam, you should report it to your local FBI field office or to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center.
