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Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.\nPosition Overview\nVantage is seeking a mid-level Database Administrator with experience installing, upgrading, and patching database servers and software across both Windows and Linux environments. This role also includes managing and administering cloud-based database solutions.\nThe successful candidate will be confident writing queries and developing tables, program views, functions, and stored procedures. They will have experience tuning queries and troubleshooting poor query performance, as well as a strong understanding of data protection and high-availability solutions to ensure business continuity in the event of server failure, data corruption, or user errors. 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