Database Administrator

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About The Role

As a Database Administrator (DBA), you will play a critical role in ensuring high availability, optimizing scalability, and delivering exceptional performance for our client’s complex, large-scale systems. Collaborating with Infrastructure and Technology teams, you’ll be responsible for managing, monitoring, and enhancing databases that power key operations.

Responsibilities

• Monitor database availability, identify potential issues, and propose optimizations for scalability and performance.
• Architect and implement new technologies and strategies in collaboration with Infrastructure and Line of Business Technology teams.
• Manage data backup, disaster recovery procedures, and restore processes.
• Install, upgrade, and configure new and existing servers, including patches and new versions.
• Ensure extremely high levels of availability for production and UAT systems.
• Resolve system issues promptly and professionally.
• Adhere to and enforce company security and compliance policies.
• Automate recurring tasks to streamline daily operations.
• Participate actively in on-call shift rotations with flexibility for evening and occasional weekend work.
• Other duties as assigned.
  
  
  

Qualifications & Skills

• 7–10 years of administration & development experience in MS SQL Server (2016/2017/2019).
• 5+ years of experience supporting high-transactional, large-scale systems with very high levels of availability.
• Expertise in writing ad-hoc T-SQL queries, stored procedures, functions, and triggers.
• 4+ years of utilizing PowerShell for task automation.
• Proven experience with database schema and code release processes.
• Skilled in evaluating and optimizing query performance.
• Hands-on experience with SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups.
• Familiarity with SQL Server replication (all types) and maintaining SSIS packages for ETL processes.
• Experience supporting Development, QA, and TechOps teams with data maintenance and query building.
  
  
  

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Knowledge of fixed-income, derivatives, and equity markets.
• Familiarity with SQL Server on SAN environments, Quest monitoring tools, or SolarWinds DPA.
• Experience with Oracle, MongoDB, or Cassandra.
  
  
  

At.Monks, we believe in fostering an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive. We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.

About Monks

Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.