SQL Database Administrator in Chicago, IL
SQL Database Administrator FTP $105,000.00 - $120,000.00  Database Administrator to join a trading technology organization. A successful candidate will be responsible for administering, building, maintaining, and optimizing databases. This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated individual to join a growing organization. Key Skills and Responsibilities  Ongoing support and administration of existing production, staging, QA and development database environments.  Configure and tune database Servers for best sustainable performance.  Review SQL code and implement all changes to the development and production databases.  Work with development teams to optimize SQL queries used in client applications.  Provide database expertise to the software development teams. Job Requirements  Expert Level Experience installing, configuring and maintaining Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008  Have worked with at least at terabyte of Data and at least 60 production Servers  Thorough understanding of relational database/schema design, SQL queries and query optimization, and stored procedure development  Strong skills in optimizing and tuning Databases and Queries and Windows clustering  Experience working with different database platforms (SQLServer, PostgreSQL, mySQL, etc.)  Ability to manage multiple, simultaneous issues  Excellent communication and interpersonal skills  Development background a plus  Experience in a financial markets environment a plus  Bachelor of Science degree or equivalent education and work experience is required  7+ years of experience working with SQL Server   
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