Senior Database Administrator

Ria Money Transfer, a business segment of Euronet Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: EEFT), delivers innovative financial services including fast, secure, and affordable global money transfers to millions of customers along with currency exchange, mobile top-up, bill payment and check cashing services, offering a reliable omnichannel experience. With over 490,000 locations in 160+ countries around the world we believe we can create a world in which people are empowered to build the life they dream of, no matter who they are or where they are. One customer, one family, one community at a time.
Ria Money Transfer is seeking a Senior SQL Server Database Administrator (DBA) to join our dynamic team. This role will be responsible for ensuring the operational integrity, availability, and security of our databases, focusing on MS SQL Server environments. As a Senior DBA, you will be expected to maintain our critical databases, troubleshoot issues, and ensure that the systems are running efficiently to support the global money transfer operations.
**Responsibilities**
- Own, track, and resolve database-related incidents and requests within specified SLAs.
- Regularly review service-related reports, primarily focusing on the Production and KC/DR Data Center database servers and services (e.g., database backups, maintenance, and monitoring) to ensure issues are identified and addressed promptly.
- Maintain the readiness and operability of the Production and KC/DR datacenter database servers for Ria Financial.
- Ensure system availability in the event of a failover from the LA production data center to the KC data center, maintaining business continuity for Ria Financial databases.
- Take ownership of assigned problems and requests, focusing on resolution in alignment with SLAs.
- Communicate with technology customers to keep them informed about the status of their requests. Perform and manage changes on production systems while proactively escalating unresolved issues within designated timeframes.
- Participate as a key member of the Production DBA Team, adhering to an on-site/on-call rotation schedule, including weekends, to support the production environment effectively.
**Qualifications**
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
- At least 3 years experience as a Microsoft SQL Server DBA in SQL Server 2014 and above
- Experience with SQL Server Replication.
- Experience in Performance Tuning and Optimization using monitoring and troubleshooting tools
- Experience in troubleshooting and resolving database problems.
- Experience with SQL Server Integration/Reporting Services.
- Experience/knowledge of Log Shipping
- Knowledge of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options for MSSQL Server, such as AlwaysOn Availability Groups
- Knowledge of indexes, index management, and statistics.
- Experience writing at least basic T-SQL queries and reports
- Experience in implementing operational automation using scripts.
- Experience working with Windows server, including Active Directory and proper disk configurations.
- Pro-active monitoring of databases both from a performance and capacity management perspective.
- Perform database maintenance activities such as backup/recovery, replication, rebuilding and reorganizing indexes.
- Experience in troubleshooting and resolving database integrity issues, performance issues, blocking/deadlocking issues, connectivity issues, data replication issues etc.
- Experience with using SQL Profiler or Server Side Traces/Extended Events to help troubleshoot performance bottlenecks
**Perks & Benefits**
- Annual salary increase review
- End of the year bonus (Christmas bonus)
- ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Plan)
- 30 days vacation per year
- Insurance guaranteed for employees ( Health, Oncological, Dental, Life Insurance)
- No fee when using RIA service/wire transfers
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