Senior Database Administrator / Database Solutions Engineer / Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. LLC

Company Profile

Founded in 1977, GMO is a global investment manager committed to delivering superior long-term investment performance and advice to our clients. We offer strategies and solutions where we believe we are positioned to add the greatest value for our investors. These include multi-asset class, equity, fixed income, and alternative offerings.

We manage approximately $65bn for a client base that includes many of the world’s most sophisticated institutions, financial intermediaries, and private clients. Industry-wide, we are well known for our focus on valuation-based investing, willingness to take bold positions when conditions warrant, and candid and academically rigorous thought leadership. Jeremy Grantham, GMO’s Co-Founder and Long-Term Investment Strategist, is renowned as an expert in identifying speculative investment bubbles and also as a leading climate investor and advocate.

GMO is privately owned and employs over 430 people worldwide. We are headquartered in Boston, with additional offices in Europe, Asia and Australia. Our company-wide culture emphasizes commitment to clients, intellectual curiosity, and open debate. We celebrate and respect our differences, while embracing and valuing what each of us brings to work, as we know that diverse teams in an inclusive, caring environment achieve higher engagement and better client results.

Ensure the availability and optimization of the Microsoft Data Platform infrastructure, both on-premises and in the cloud. Automate database maintenance, monitoring, alerting, and mitigation of potential issues using Azure Monitor and Kusto Query Language, Azure Function App, PowerShell, and ServiceNow. Design, deploy, monitor, and support Azure database resources, such as Azure SQL, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, and more. Duties include:

1. Support database service delivery to business units (standard business hours with on-call rotation);

2. Implement SQL Server enhancements and updates to ensure DBMS technology remains up-to-date;

3. Provide in-depth troubleshooting for performance-related production issues;

4. Build and maintain the data storage infrastructure, either in relational, non-relational, or other storage systems, including virtualized and physical SQL Server Clusters and Azure Data Lake;

5. Optimize query performance against SQL Server, Azure Synapse, and inside of Azure Data Factory components;

6. Implement and maintain SQL HA functionality, including multi-subnet Always On Availability Groups;

7. Collaborate with Developers on data-related code development efforts, focusing on performance, usability, and scalability;

8. Redesign applications and databases to optimize them for the cloud;

9. Participate in new data projects and design database and architecture for both on-premises and in the cloud;

10. Automate repetitive tasks by integrating existing tools using TSQL, PowerShell, Azure Function, KQL, or other technology;

11. Migrate on-premises applications and databases to the most appropriate IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions.

May telecommute part of the week from commuting distance to Boston, MA in accordance with the company’s flexible working policy.

Minimum Requirements:

A Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Management Information Systems, or related field followed by 5 years of post-baccalaureate experience in a database administrator-related occupation.

Experience must include the following, which may have been gained concurrently:

1) 4 years of experience working with large MS SQL Server databases in a 24x7x365 production environment;

2) 4 years of experience building and upgrading SQL servers;

3) 4 years of experience monitoring SQL Server versions and releases;

4) 4 years of experience with SQL Server HADR solution;

5) 4 years of experience with SQL Server, including SQL internals, performance tuning, and query optimization using TSQL;

6) 3 years of experience in automation programming;

7) 2 years of experience monitoring a large SQL Server estate, including databases in the cloud;

8) 1 year of experience with DevOps CI/CD pipelines;

9) 1 year of experience with ticketing tools, including ServiceNow, Jira, or Azure DevOps board.

Job site: 53 State St., Suite 3300, Boston, MA, 02109. Full-time.

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To learn more & to apply online, visit our website at:https://www.gmo.com/americas/careers/ & reference Req. #Senior Database Administrator / Database Solutions Engineer.