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Our IT services spans in three distinct Solutions and Services Categories:\r\nIT Project Management Tools, Solutions and Services\r\nTechnology Outsourcing Solutions\r\nIT (HCM)- Human Capital Management Solutions\r\nJob Description\r\nLocation: Washington, District of Columbia\r\nFull-time | ID: 1388039\r\nDESCRIPTION\r\nJob Description\r\nThe Database Administrator will be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining production databases, SQL queries, procedures, scripts and objects, including tables, primary and foreign key relationships, triggers, constraints, etc.\r\nIn this role, you will perform advanced performance analysis and tuning within SQL Server, as well as the other tiers of the infrastructure, to identify and resolve bottlenecks and problems, and you'll ensure that databases are working properly in conjunction with applications. 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