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Minerva Foods

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1992

🌾 Agriculture

🤝 B2B

💰 $100M Post-IPO Debt - Minerva Foods on 2023-09

Agriculture • B2B

Minerva Foods is a leading South American producer and exporter of fresh meat and meat-derived products, with more than 30 years of experience in the production and commercialization of beef, lamb and processed meat lines. The company operates across the full value chain — from relationships with cattle ranchers and traceability programs to industrial processing, branded products, retail and foodservice channels, and export markets — and also maintains related businesses including biodiesel, leather, casings, ingredients and energy. Minerva emphasizes sustainability, animal welfare, low-carbon and carbon-neutral product lines, and corporate governance and investor relations.

📋 Description

• As a Mid-level SQL Server DBA, you will configure and maintain environments with AlwaysOn Availability Groups, Failover Cluster Instances (FCI), Log Shipping and Replication; • Identify I/O, CPU and memory bottlenecks; • Analyze execution plans (Execution Plans), identify unnecessary Index Scans, design efficient indexing strategies and resolve deadlocks and lock escalation issues; • Ensure the backup policy (Full, Differential, Transaction Log) meets the business RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective), and regularly test and validate restores; • Have a deep understanding of how queries work to help the development team optimize code, stored procedures and triggers; • Troubleshoot quickly using tools such as Extended Events, Query Store, DMVs (Dynamic Management Views) or Profiler; • Analyze data growth trends, plan capacity and recommend infrastructure upgrades or historical data archiving; • Use PowerShell or T-SQL scripts to automate repetitive tasks (such as integrity checks with dbatools/DBCC CHECKDB and reindexing). • Manage SQL Server environments • Plan and execute: • Backup and restore strategies • Index and statistics maintenance plans • Installation and configuration of SQL Server • Administer security: • Object-level permissions • Principle of least privilege • Basic encryption (TDE, encrypted backups) • Perform performance analysis and troubleshooting • Use Query Store to: • Identify plan regressions • Force plans when necessary • Use Profiler and Extended Events for troubleshooting • Replication: • Transactional replication • Snapshot replication • Bi-directional replication • Support database architecture improvements • Work closely with development teams

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree • Intermediate English • Basic Spanish • Experience with PostgreSQL and Oracle is a plus • Knowledge of Power BI • Knowledge of Pentaho • Knowledge of Zabbix and Grafana • SQL Server certifications • Minimum 7 years of SQL Server database experience • Ownership mentality • Strong critical thinking/problem-solving skills • Availability to travel

🏖️ Benefits

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