NorthHill Technology Resources has a need for a SQL Server Engineer to support a Federal Program in Chantilly, VA.  This is a direct-hire opportunity with our client, a fast-growing Federal Integrator.  Outstanding compensation and benefits.  This role requires an active CI Polygraph.
 

Microsoft SQL Server Engineer

As a Microsoft SQL Engineer you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing physical and virtual Microsoft SQL Servers, and implementing security and vendor best practices in a distributed IT environment.

Responsibilities Include But Not Limited To

• Engineering, documenting, delivering and maintaining the Microsoft SQL 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017 in accordance with customer specifications and security guidelines

• Diagnosing and resolving the toughest performance, security, and/or technical challenges related to the platforms listed above

• Writing implementation and design documents describing how security features are implemented

• Participating in processes throughout all phases of ITIL Service Lifecycle, including submitting Change Requests and resolution of Incident tickets

• Performing requirements analysis, design, and integration for all platforms listed above.

• Providing direction and guidance to less experienced systems engineers and SQL database administrators to a lesser extent

• Investigating and resolving operational problems in conjunction with other engineering and technical personnel

• Integration and design of SQL instances in virtualized and physical environments

• Knowledge and experience implementation fault tolerant database solutions

• Knowledge and experience designing database solutions for disaster recovery

• Knowledge and experience implementing DISA STiGs for databases

• Support for applications that rely on SQL database, including performance tuning and trouble-shooting

• Other tasks to include requirements specification, performance modeling, end-to-end functional analysis, cost estimation, and joint application design

• Working on project teams responsible for engineering and packaging releases to integrate within the customer's production IT environment.

Position Requirements

• Requires Bachelor's degree and 8 years of related experience with 3-5 years of SQL Administration and SQL Design experience

• MCSA, MCSE or other equivalent SQL Server certification required

• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Windows systems, including DNS, Group Policy, and PKI

• Required candidate must be 8570 IAT Level II compliant with the capability to become IAT level III within 6 months of hire date (whatever language we use to identify need for Security+)

• Experience with MySQL desired