Sr SQL Administrator
PenumbraNeurovascular and company
Alameda, United States$140,000 - $200,000 / yearSenior
Highland Capital Management
Software EngineeringNew
About the role
TL;DR
Administer, optimize, and support enterprise database platforms, ensuring availability, security, and integrity.
- •The Senior SQL Administrator is responsible for the administration, performance, availability, security, recoverability, and integrity of enterprise database platforms across on-premises and cloud-based environments.
- •This position designs, implements, monitors, optimizes, and supports highly available database platforms.
- •Key Responsibilities Manage day-to-day operations of enterprise database platforms, including configuration, maintenance, patching, backups, restores, performance, security, and capacity.
- •Administer, maintain, and optimize Microsoft SQL Server environments across on-premises, virtualized, and cloud-hosted platforms.
- •Implement and support high availability and disaster recovery solutions, including SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, clustering, log shipping, replication, backups, and restore testing.
- •Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for complex database incidents and performance degradation.
- •Develop and maintain automation for database maintenance, monitoring, alerting, reporting, and operational support activities.
- •Requirements Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Data Management, or a related field with 8+ years of enterprise-level database administration and/or database engineering experience. 5+ years of experience supporting high availability, disaster recovery, backup, restore, and database recovery strategies for business-critical systems.
- •Strong experience with SQL Server performance tuning, indexing, query optimization, execution plans, wait statistics, SQL Agent jobs, and database maintenance plans.
- •Experience administering SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, failover clustering, log shipping, replication, or equivalent high availability technologies.
- •Experience with PowerShell, T-SQL scripting, automation, monitoring, alerting, and operational reporting.
Required skills
SQL ServerSQL
Nice-to-have skills
Power BI
Tech stack
SQL ServerSQLPower BI