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About iHerb

iHerb is one of the leading global e-commerce retailers with its emphasis on Nutritional and Wellness products. Our mission is simple…providing the best overall value for natural products through "e-simplicity." Our values can be best defined as an environment in constant and continuous pursuit to conscientiously meet the needs of our customers, business partners, and team members while doing our part to safeguard the environment. 

Job Summary:

Under general supervision, the Sr. Database Administrator will be responsible for the installation, configuration, upgrade, administration, monitoring and maintenance of databases in the company. The role includes the development and design of database strategies, system monitoring and improving database performance and capacity, and planning for future expansion requirements. They may also plan, co-ordinate and implement security measures to safeguard the database.

Job Expectations:

• Installing and upgrading the database server and application tools
• Allocating system storage and planning future storage requirements for the database system
• Modifying the database structure, as necessary, from information given by application developers verbally
• Developing database queries for applications and programs as needed
• Diagnosing database problems and coming up with resolutions
• Enrolling users and maintaining system security
• Ensuring compliance with database vendor license agreement
• Controlling and monitoring user access to the database
• Monitoring and optimizing the performance of the database
• Planning for backup and recovery of database information
• Maintaining archived data
• Backing up and restoring databases
• Contacting database vendor for technical support
• Generating various reports by querying from database as per need.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

   Required:

• Strong knowledge of SQL and experience with Microsoft SQL Server
• Strong knowledge of relational databases
• Strong knowledge of T-SQL and database programming
• Full understanding of database transactions and how they work.
• Experience in optimizing query plans
• Experience in database security
• Experience in working with SQL profiler
• Experience in working with high traffic databases
• Experience in setting up and managing fail-over clusters
• Experience in developing and managing SSIS packages
• Experience in database mirroring and replications

Experience Requirements:

• Requires a minimum of five (5) to ten (10) years of experience with the Microsoft SQL Server. Experience in working with NOSQL databases would be an advantage.

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree required.  An emphasis in Computer Science is preferred