The Maersk Group is a diversified global conglomerate with activities mainly in shipping and energy industries. It employs roughly 121,000 people, and generated 59 billion US dollars in revenue in 2012.
As a Group, its business success is built on a number of strengths: size and global reach, financial strength, talented employees, time-honoured values, approach to sustainability and drive to innovate. Combined, these strengths form a unique platform for the Group’s continued success and future growth.
With the ambitions of the different businesses in the Group, there is a need to strengthen the IT infrastructure, as this is a core enabler for future growth and stability. The Group is now taking the next step in professionalising its IT infrastructure services by creating a world-class professional IT shared services organisation that allows its employees across the world to stay connected and do business seamlessly, through efficient and reliable infrastructure. The new organisation will service the entire Group on Infrastructure services and will enable the Group to have consistent and efficient delivery of IT infrastructure services, and an increased ability to accelerate key improvements such as IT security.
The Maersk Group is on the lookout for ambitious, accomplished and dedicated IT individuals who are interested in joining in its transformation journey.
We offer
Maersk is a highly international and inspiring environment with an attractive value proposition for its employees. Our package consists of an externally benchmarked salary, pension scheme, 25 days holiday a year and a number of other attractive benefits.
Key responsibilities
As a production focused SQL Database Administrator (DBA) you will manage the Azure cloud based data platform. On a day to day basis, the role oversees and ensures that all database servers are backed up to meet disaster recovery objectives. Creating, configuring and optimising alerting mechanisms to minimise SQL Server failures and interruptions. Your skills allow you to readily set operational best practices and proactively investigate sub-performant SQL operations and make recommendations for their improvement.
You will be working inside the Cloud IaaS Operations team as a subject matter expert and with our private cloud provider who manage a complimentary set of database installations. By performing root cause analysis of SQL Server service outages, interruptions and performance issues as they occur to ensure operational excellence.
We are looking for
Proven experience with Database Administration for MSSQL Server 2008 R2 through 2017; troubleshooting and resolving database problems, Performance Tuning and Optimization (PTO), using native monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
Expertise with backups, restores and recovery models. Proficient in High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options for MSSQL Server. Always-On, FCI and AG Replication Transactional & Log shipping
Experience in implementing operational automation using scripts.
Explicit Knowledge of indexes, index management, and statistics.
Analysis Services, Integration Services, Master Data Services, Reporting Services and Data Quality Services experience would be considered a plus
Experience working with Windows server, Azure including Active Directory and proper disk configurations.
Proven experience working with database migration projects. Recent experience with SQL DB migration from on premise to Azure highly desirable.
In addition, would be advantageous any/some of the following:
Knowledge or experience with management platforms (SCOM/SCCM) will be considered a plus.
Task Management.
Risk Analysis and Management.
IT Standards, Process and Procedures formulation testing
Preferred certifications, but not required or limited to:
ITIL Foundation
MCTS
MCITP
MCSA Windows Server 2012+
Experience with ITIL framework, specially Service Operations and Service Transition
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