November 25, 2010 at 9:02 am
We need multiple SQL DBA's for our fortune customer in Chicago, IL.
Here's the actual job description
Role and Responsibilities
* Responsible for supporting the SQL Server Databases and ensuring their performance, availability and security
* Perform data architecture and modeling activities in a SOA environment
* Proactively monitor database systems to guarantee secure services with minimum downtime
* Responsible for providing trend analysis to management team to enable them to make informed decisions regarding resource management.
* Responsible for troubleshooting and problem solving SQL development.
* Responsible for migration of SQL components throughout development lifecycle
* Responsible for improvement and maintenance of the databases to include rollout and upgrades
* Responsible for implementation and release of database changes according to agreed timescales and costs
Qualifications and Education Requirements
* Bachelor*s degree
* 8+ years Database Administration experience
* 8+ combined years experience in creating and testing queries, stored procedures, triggers, load balancing, optimization, scalability and views, database and table replication, SSIS and DTS
The job offers great benefit package. Please send your resume to ram@3susa.com with rate/salary expectation. Client is open to Contract/Full Time/Contract-to-hire options.
November 25, 2010 at 9:26 am
It might be useful to some people if you could post more info. Things like relocation and telecommute are good things to cover.;-)
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November 29, 2010 at 9:38 am
Ram, just to get a better idea of what you're looking for...
We need multiple SQL DBA's for our fortune customer in Chicago, IL.
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Qualifications and Education Requirements
* Bachelor*s degree
* 8+ years Database Administration experience
* 8+ combined years experience in creating and testing queries, stored procedures, triggers, load balancing, optimization, scalability and views, database and table replication, SSIS and DTS
So you need an 8+ year DBA *AND* an 8+ year developer in the same body, multiple times? You do realize the pricetag for this, right?
ram 71135 (11/25/2010)
Role and Responsibilities* Responsible for supporting the SQL Server Databases and ensuring their performance, availability and security
* Perform data architecture and modeling activities in a SOA environment
* Proactively monitor database systems to guarantee secure services with minimum downtime
* Responsible for providing trend analysis to management team to enable them to make informed decisions regarding resource management.
* Responsible for troubleshooting and problem solving SQL development.
* Responsible for migration of SQL components throughout development lifecycle
* Responsible for improvement and maintenance of the databases to include rollout and upgrades
* Responsible for implementation and release of database changes according to agreed timescales and costs
These responsibilities, *except* for troubleshooting and problem solving SQL development, and the data modeling, only require DBA skills. Also, this:
* Responsible for implementation and release of database changes according to agreed timescales and costs
Agreed upon by whom? 40 hour weeks and 20 hour weekends because marketing is making promises tech has to keep is a crappy job.
This looks like two jobs in one. No wonder you're advertising here.
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November 29, 2010 at 10:50 am
ram 71135 (11/25/2010)
Qualifications and Education Requirements* Bachelor*s degree
* 8+ years Database Administration experience
* 8+ combined years experience in
Well that would rule me out (were it even possible for me to even think about a job in Chicago)
16+ years experience in SQL server databases? That means the person would have had to start with SQL in 1994. That's SQL 7 era. I was still in high school then.
creating and testing queries, stored procedures, triggers, load balancing, optimization, scalability and views, database and table replication, SSIS and DTS
Sounds like a list of buzz words. Why does the SQL DBA need to know about load balancing? SQL doesn't do load balancing, never has. (unless you roll something custom with replication or similar)
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November 29, 2010 at 10:59 am
While I truly believe that Gail is more qualified than me for that job I'll start the bidding anyways :
180 K / year
4 days / week.
6 hours max per day
NO pager
NEVER on call unless it's my fault.
2 days / week from home MINIMUM
get in and out whenever I want.
2 months paid vacation
I'll let you know if I think of anything else I want :hehe:.
.... well someone started it :hehe:
November 29, 2010 at 11:03 am
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/29/2010)
While I truly believe that Gail is more qualified than me for that job I'll start the bidding anyways :180 K / year
4 days / week.
6 hours max per day
NO pager
NEVER on call unless it's my fault.
2 days / week from home MINIMUM
get in and out whenever I want.
2 months paid vacation
I will raise you a 180K and go to 190K.
I will permit the 5 days a week, so long as I get to telecommute 5 days a week.
2 months paid vacation is spot on for starters.
We also need to discuss signing bonus. Minimum 10% annual salary.
:hehe::hehe:
Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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November 29, 2010 at 11:07 am
I don't care so much about bonuses.
I preffer 10% of the net profits I bring into the doors :hehe:.
With 16 years experience you don't need 5 days / week to get the job done. Everything would be so automated you'd have nothing left to do.
Think 180K is a high price? Most consultants I know with anything close to that experience charge 250$+ / hour... so that's almost 60% discount on that price.
November 29, 2010 at 11:11 am
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/29/2010)
Think 180K is a high price? Most consultants I know with anything close to that experience charge 250$+ / hour... so that's almost 60% discount on that price.
I don't think it is high.
How many DBA's think that is a high price?
How many consultants think that is a high price?
I don't think there are too many.
Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
_______________________________________________
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SQL RNNR
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November 29, 2010 at 11:19 am
CirquedeSQLeil (11/29/2010)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/29/2010)
Think 180K is a high price? Most consultants I know with anything close to that experience charge 250$+ / hour... so that's almost 60% discount on that price.I don't think it is high.
How many DBA's think that is a high price?
How many consultants think that is a high price?
I don't think there are too many.
Agreed, you're hired if you hire me back as well :w00t:.
Also it always depends on where you live. If you can be very frugal, you can easily make it with 30K net / year in my birth town. Pretty sure it's not true in NY or chicago.
I forgot another demand... I need a green card and paid move from Canada... or we can review the tele-commute rules to 100% from home with a couple weeks on site with paid hotel.
November 29, 2010 at 11:23 am
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/29/2010)
CirquedeSQLeil (11/29/2010)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/29/2010)
Think 180K is a high price? Most consultants I know with anything close to that experience charge 250$+ / hour... so that's almost 60% discount on that price.I don't think it is high.
How many DBA's think that is a high price?
How many consultants think that is a high price?
I don't think there are too many.
Agreed, you're hired if you hire me back as well :w00t:.
Also it always depends on where you live. If you can be very frugal, you can easily make it with 30K net / year in my birth town. Pretty sure it's not true in NY or chicago.
I forgot another demand... I need a green card and paid move from Canada... or we can review the tele-commute rules to 100% from home with a couple weeks on site with paid hotel.
You're hired on one condition - change your reqs to 100% telecommute 😉
Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
_______________________________________________
I have given a name to my pain...MCM SQL Server, MVP
SQL RNNR
Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
Learn Extended Events
November 29, 2010 at 11:25 am
CirquedeSQLeil (11/29/2010)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/29/2010)
Think 180K is a high price? Most consultants I know with anything close to that experience charge 250$+ / hour... so that's almost 60% discount on that price.I don't think it is high.
How many DBA's think that is a high price?
How many consultants think that is a high price?
I don't think there are too many.
Is it high? Yes, yes it is very high for the average joe schmoe in SQL. For the experience they're asking for (Practically starting in Sybase and becoming a Level II during the 6.5/7.0 years), maybe not.
Top end entry salary right now for a Senior DBA is ~100/125k, depending on geography. I have family in three states so I tend to watch multiple markets. Contracting usually tops out between $60-$75/hour (for the consultant via a consulting firm, corp to corp independents are a whole different set of rules), with the average being in the $30-45/hour range for most positions.
$250/hour is insanely high. It's also what Ram's going to pay for his consultants for what he's looking for.
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November 29, 2010 at 11:29 am
CirquedeSQLeil (11/29/2010)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/29/2010)
CirquedeSQLeil (11/29/2010)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/29/2010)
Think 180K is a high price? Most consultants I know with anything close to that experience charge 250$+ / hour... so that's almost 60% discount on that price.I don't think it is high.
How many DBA's think that is a high price?
How many consultants think that is a high price?
I don't think there are too many.
Agreed, you're hired if you hire me back as well :w00t:.
Also it always depends on where you live. If you can be very frugal, you can easily make it with 30K net / year in my birth town. Pretty sure it's not true in NY or chicago.
I forgot another demand... I need a green card and paid move from Canada... or we can review the tele-commute rules to 100% from home with a couple weeks on site with paid hotel.
You're hired on one condition - change your reqs to 100% telecommute 😉
Done!
November 29, 2010 at 11:32 am
Craig Farrell (11/29/2010)
CirquedeSQLeil (11/29/2010)
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/29/2010)
Think 180K is a high price? Most consultants I know with anything close to that experience charge 250$+ / hour... so that's almost 60% discount on that price.I don't think it is high.
How many DBA's think that is a high price?
How many consultants think that is a high price?
I don't think there are too many.
Is it high? Yes, yes it is very high for the average joe schmoe in SQL. For the experience they're asking for (Practically starting in Sybase and becoming a Level II during the 6.5/7.0 years), maybe not.
Top end entry salary right now for a Senior DBA is ~100/125k, depending on geography. I have family in three states so I tend to watch multiple markets. Contracting usually tops out between $60-$75/hour (for the consultant via a consulting firm, corp to corp independents are a whole different set of rules), with the average being in the $30-45/hour range for most positions.
$250/hour is insanely high. It's also what Ram's going to pay for his consultants for what he's looking for.
Ya but they're basically asking to hire a Joe Celko or Paul Randal and the likes. No way in hell they'll get a quy like that for 100K / year. I don't care how many perks.
Also 250$/hour is not much if you provide that much value. I've often come in to new compagnies and solve 15 "huge" problems the first day I walked into the door that took them (3-4 guyes) months to not solve. Considering that case, 250$ is almost too cheap.
Nothing is too expansive if it provides equal or more value and that the recipient can make good use of it.
November 29, 2010 at 11:35 am
Craig Farrell (11/29/2010)
Contracting usually tops out between $60-$75/hour (for the consultant via a consulting firm, corp to corp independents are a whole different set of rules)
I bill $100/hour, and I'm sitting at the wrong end of a 7:1 exchange rate. Down here most of the big consulting companies have rates far higher than mine.
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability
November 29, 2010 at 11:44 am
Ninja's_RGR'us (11/29/2010)
Ya but they're basically asking to hire a Joe Celko or Paul Randal and the likes. No way in hell they'll get a quy like that for 100K / year. I don't care how many perks.Also 250$/hour is not much if you provide that much value. I've often come in to new compagnies and solve 15 "huge" problems the first day I walked into the door that took them (3-4 guyes) months to not solve. Considering that case, 250$ is almost too cheap.
Nothing is too expansive if it provides equal or more value and that the recipient can make good use of it.
I would agree, but at that point you're hiring a specific person, not a generic request for people to work for you. You're hunting down a specific expert to come in, and you're buying that person's time, not looking for a position filler.
This isn't *one* position, he's hiring multiple, thus my commentary.
If he approached you, Gail, Grant, Wayne, Jeff, etc... no, I would say it was money well spent. Generic hiring request without more specifics? Nah.
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