Database Administrator

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Manchester, Greater Manchester, England
7+ Years Experience
Artificial Intelligence • Software
The Role
As a Database Administrator, you will work directly with senior developers team to design, test, plan, protect and implement our department’s databases. Responsibilities include managing database performance, high availability architecture, disaster recovery, backup processes, monitoring, infrastructure management, and supporting application development.
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TransPerfect Is More Than Just a Job…
Our greatest asset is our people, and nothing is more important to us than ensuring that everyone knows that. Each of our 100+ offices has its own individual identity, and each also has its own unique rewards.

TransPerfect helps organizations navigate the global marketplace. It remains founder- led – and has striven to maintain the ethos and drive that led them to grow organically year-on-year for the past 30 years. Starting in an NYU dorm room in the early 1990s, TransPerfect is today recognized as the largest translation and language services company in the world with thousands of employees located in 90+ offices worldwide. In 2021, TransPerfect exceeded $1 billion in revenue.

The TransPerfect TechOps team has been a vital part of the company’s success since its formation 10 years ago – delivering technology and services that have drastically simplified the lives of our clients and colleagues – from workflow improvements for colleagues, to core services that form the basis of the company’s GlobalLink platform, to creating scalable client interfaces that allow novice users to navigate complex ecosystems.

As a Database Administrator, you will work directly with senior developers team to design, test, plan, protect and implement our department’s databases.

To find out more about our solutions, please visit: https://globallink.transperfect.com/

Your responsibilities and tasks will include:

  • Managing locking, process blocking and performance tuning of our databases
  • Creating and maintaining a high availability and disaster-recovery-friendly architecture
  • Managing, optimizing, testing and verifying the backup and restoration processes
  • Creating and maintaining monitoring and metrics tooling and dashboards, to give both high-level and granular insight into database performance and operation
  • Managing our infrastructure in a preventative manner, considering and avoiding potential future issues, mitigating damage from future incidents
  • Handling support tickets when necessary, backing up your peers
  • Develops and deploys new database objects and changes to existing database objects including tables, stored procedures, views, etc.
  • Create complex functions, scripts, stored procedures and triggers to support application development
  • Designs, develops and maintains a multitude of complex relational database reports using SSRS

The minimum we’re looking for (show us what you’ve got if you aren’t a perfect fit):

  • Advanced understanding of relational database architecture/infrastructure, specifically MSSQL
  • Knowledge of SSMS, SSRS, support tooling
  • Knowledge of T-SQL, Stored Procedures, and day-to-day DB functions
  • Advanced knowledge of how to optimize MSSQL, support HA/DR, etc
  • Strong knowledge of systems and software development lifecycles; application integration techniques; and relational database design
  • Experience with Always on High Availability Groups is a plus
  • Analyze, troubleshoot and break-down complex problems
  • Choose appropriate tasks to work on relative to our current workload
  • Understand and implement best-practices balanced with our team standards
  • Clearly communicate ideas, thoughts and suggestions to manager and peers
  • Participate, review and offer constructive criticism to peers’ changes and code

Top Skills

Mssql
The Company
HQ: New York, New York
11,565 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1992

What We Do

The world's best businesses know that potential customers can be anywhere. TransPerfect helps our clients to be everywhere. With global headquarters in New York and offices in 140+ cities across six continents, TransPerfect is the world's largest provider of language services and related technologies.

The TransPerfect family of companies enables organizations to speak the language of global business through:

- Translation and Language Services
- Website and Software Localization
- Globalization Management Technology
- Multicultural Marketing
- Legal Support and E-Discovery
- E-Learning Platform Internationalization
- Multimedia and Studio Solutions
- Interpretation and Call Center Support

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