Home Forums Career Resumes and Job Hunters How can I attract Senior Database Administrator candidates? RE: How can I attract Senior Database Administrator candidates?

  • July 27, 2012 at 3:52 pm

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    bclyde-1080677 (7/27/2012)

    Jeff Moden (7/25/2012)

    bclyde-1080677 (7/25/2012)

    I have a few full-time DBA positions open on my team, one of which is for a Sr. DBA. We have had a hard time finding qualified candidates to fill the position and I need the help sooner than later. The salary and compensation package is very good and the ability to advance, in one's career and skills, is great, but we just don't have that many applicants. What am I doing wrong, or what more can I do?

    I suspect it's simply due to a lack of information. For example, you ask what you're doing wrong above but give us no idea of what you've actually done nor any clue as to where we can see the job description to see if we can help. In the post you made just prior to this one on another thread, you told folks to check the SQL Jobs forum on this site for a great job. Which of the dozens posted there might it be?

    If you want to attract good people, you've got to be a wee bit more forthcoming with information about the job. You also have to trust me that if your the one trying to hire a good DBA in Atlanta for only 75-85K, you'll probably end up waiting for quite a while.

    Guilty as charged. You can't get much help when you post for advice but don't give any details. I added my company's job posting in a link above, but the job posting here in the SQL Jobs forum is the only one under the heading "SQL Server DBA". It is the Senior Database Administrator for Melaleuca in Idaho Falls, ID.

    And no, this is not for a job in Atlanta, and for a true Sr. SQL DBA we will gladly pay more than what you mentioned.;-)

    Whose definition of true Sr. SQL DBA? I consider myself a true Sr SQL DBA (Hybrid actually, Admin/Developer) but I unfortunately don't have production experience with clusters or replication. I have worked in a clustered environment, and I have set up replication in lab/POC environment to see if it would meet our needs. Most environments I have worked, as well, I had very little interaction at the OS level. In a past position I did install and configure Windows NT 4.0 (tells you how long ago), but that responsibility went away as network/os work was centralized from database/application development work.

    I have setup database mirroring in a SQL Server 2008 EE environment. Was most enlightening and actually fun to accomplish. Actually selected it over windows clustering for HA as it offered several advantages: during failover the mirror become available much quicker, SQL Server 2008 EE allows page level errors to be corrected automatically, redundent copy of data immediately available (good if the never will crash SAN should decide to crash).

    Built intregration processes between systems (both in-house and vendor hosted) using SSIS, some of which required some moderately complex processing.