Database Administrator
Evaluation Systems (Western/Springfield, Massachusetts)

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Pearson is an international media company with market-leading businesses in education, business information and consumer publishing. Pearson's education business represents about two-thirds of the company, and Penguin publishing and the Financial Times make up the balance. With more than 30,000 employees based in 60 countries, we are a family of businesses that draws on common assets, processes and shares a common purpose: to help our customers live and learn. Evaluation Systems group of Pearson is an educational testing company that develops and administers customized teacher certification testing programs and other assessment programs in higher education. Our work covers assessments in more that one hundred content fields, professional teaching skills, and the basic skills of reading, writing, and mathematics. Evaluation Systems' contracts span the country and have included the states of Arizona, New Mexico, California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Oklahoma,Texas, Georgia, and Florida. Pearson is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/V/D, and a member of E-Verify. Our Information Technology Department is looking for a Database Administrator to provide technical support to their team. The Database Administrator monitors and troubleshoots performance tuning with SQL Server 2000/2005 in a production environment, following SQL security standards. The Administrator is responsible for: monitoring production databases and optimizing stored procedures for better performance; identifying and resolving performance issues and database capacity issues; monitoring database backups and maintaining recovery procedures; maintaining all database environments, Development, Testing, QA, Staging , and Production; performing deployments to production environments; analyzing and resolving complex technical problems; coordinating and/or implementing system changes and recommending new products and features; database capacity planning and the configuring of new servers and databases; and providing support for the development team. Requirements for this position include: - Bachelor's degree - Formal training and a minimum of 5 years of work experience in MS SQL Server database administration - Experience using SQL Server 2000 and 2005 supporting large complex databases - Experience with backup and recovery, performance monitoring and tuning - Excellent oral and written communication skills - The ability to problem-solve and work effectively in a team environment. - Working knowledge of SQL Server replication and/or clustering is desired.