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About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Senior Database Administrator to manage, optimize, and help scale our Microsoft SQL Server environments. This role is focused on database performance, reliability, maintenance, and operational excellence for large production systems.
The ideal candidate is proactive, detail-oriented, and comfortable working closely with development, infrastructure, and support teams to keep mission-critical systems stable, secure, and performing well.
Key Responsibilities
Manage and maintain production and non-production Microsoft SQL Server environments.
Monitor database health, performance, storage, jobs, alerts, backups, restores, and maintenance processes.
Support SQL Server Availability Groups, listeners, backup and restore processes, and database cloning.
Troubleshoot production database issues, identify root causes, and drive incidents through resolution.
Support performance testing, capacity planning, and database scalability as data volume and usage grow.
Work closely with development and infrastructure teams to review and implement database changes, tune SQL performance—including queries, stored procedures, indexes, and transaction-heavy workflows—and improve overall database reliability.
Improve database operations through monitoring, automation, documentation, and repeatable procedures.
Required Experience
Strong hands-on experience as a DBA supporting large Microsoft SQL Server production databases.
Strong experience with SQL Server performance tuning, including query optimization, indexing, execution plans, stored procedures, and complex SQL scripts.
Experience managing SQL Server jobs, alerts, backups, restores, maintenance plans, Availability Groups, and listeners.
Experience with system-versioned temporal tables, history tables, archiving, and large historical data sets.
Ability to troubleshoot database performance issues across applications, reporting, imports, exports, and high-volume transaction systems.
Experience with database monitoring, health checks, performance analysis, and proactive alerting.
Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with development, infrastructure, support, and other technical and nontechnical teams.
Preferred Experience
Experience supporting SaaS platforms or customer-facing business applications.
Experience with multi-customer or multi-tenant database environments.
Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and observability tools such as New Relic, ELK, or similar platforms.
Experience improving database operations through automation, documentation, and process improvement.
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