Terrific Contract Opportunity!

Come work for this award-winning global leader in healthcare IT to innovate and make open, connected communities of care possible for organizations across the world.

Position: Principal Database Administrator

Location: Remote

Term: 3 months

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

Apply depth of knowledge and experience towards enabling our business to transition to the cloud.
Bring both relational and non-relational chops to help us architect, build and maintain our SaaS data stores in the cloud (AWS/Azure).
Ensure the continuous availability of our mission critical systems.
Help manage all aspects of our AWS/Azure instances and storage backing our cloud platforms.
Conquer the day-to-day operational aspects of our systems:
Performance monitoring/tuning, HA/DR strategies, Backup strategies, Query tuning, Cloud instance/storage design, provisioning and performance monitoring.
On-prem to cloud migrations.
Automate routine tasks with your own scripts and open-source tools.

Is this a good fit? (Requirements):

7+ years of solid experience with designing, administrating and scaling SQL Server.
Experience with additional database platforms such Postgres/CosmosDB/MongoDB.
Experience with designing overall database stack architectures (server/storage/DBMS) and related performance monitoring and alerting solutions.
Amazon/Azure proficiency with VM instances, storage and database platforms.
Experience with large, high volume, mission critical environments SaaS environments.
Experience with cloud provisioning via code.
Passionate about solving business data problems.
Thrives in a rapid paced environment and loves new challenges.
Incredibly detail oriented and thorough.
Experience in an Agile or Scrum Environment.
Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or other related discipline.

Even better if you have:

Terraform expertise.
Scripting abilities.
Strong Linux system administration proficiency.

If this sounds like the perfect fit, apply today!