Senior SQL Database Administrator / SQL SME (Remote)
Serigor Inc.
Job Title: Senior SQL Database Administrator / SQL SME
Location: Remote (Client Address: 732 North Capitol Street NW, Washington, DC 20401)
Duration: 5 years
Job Summary:
We are seeking a Senior SQL Database Administrator / SQL SME to provide database administration, development, maintenance, monitoring, and production support across on-premises and cloud environments.
The SQL SME will support standalone and clustered SQL Server environments, troubleshoot production issues, optimize database performance, implement HA/DR solutions, and coordinate database-related incidents, service requests, and changes.
Responsibilities:
- Administer, configure, maintain, and support Microsoft SQL Server databases.
- Support standalone SQL Server and SQL Cluster environments.
- Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and maintain SQL Server components.
- Build and configure databases based on application and business requirements.
- Perform daily troubleshooting, error triage, system setup, and configuration.
- Monitor database availability, capacity, storage, performance, and system health.
- Perform SQL query optimization, indexing, execution-plan analysis, and performance tuning.
- Develop and maintain SQL scripts, stored procedures, database objects, and automation.
- Design, implement, and test database backup and restoration procedures.
- Implement and support High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions.
- Support scheduled failovers, recovery exercises, patching, and server reboots.
- Troubleshoot database, server, cluster, connectivity, and application-integration issues.
- Manage incidents, service requests, and change requests using ServiceNow.
- Execute Requests for Change related to ongoing database maintenance.
- Perform proactive monitoring and capacity planning using Idera and SolarWinds.
- Lead production-incident troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
- Maintain technical documentation, operating procedures, standards, and runbooks.
- Collaborate with application, infrastructure, security, cloud, and business teams.
- Provide technical guidance to other database administrators.
- Prepare weekly reports covering support activities and accomplishments.
- Participate in periodically scheduled after-hours maintenance and production support.
Required Experience / Skills:
- Minimum 8 years of Microsoft SQL Server database-administration experience.
- Advanced experience administering SQL Server in production environments.
- Strong experience with SQL Server Clustering.
- Strong SQL scripting and database-automation skills.
- Experience with database installation, configuration, upgrades, and patching.
- Experience with backup, restoration, recovery, and database maintenance.
- Experience implementing and supporting HA/DR environments.
- Strong database-performance analysis and tuning experience.
- Experience with database-health monitoring and capacity planning.
- Experience supporting on-premises and cloud database environments.
- Experience troubleshooting server, database, connectivity, and application issues.
- Experience with ServiceNow or a comparable IT service-management platform.
- Experience with Idera, SolarWinds, or comparable monitoring tools.
- Working knowledge of PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle Database, or MS Access.
- Strong problem-solving, documentation, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work independently and provide technical leadership.
- Ability to work remotely and remain available through Microsoft Teams during assigned working hours.
Certifications: Good to Have
- Microsoft SQL Server certification.
- Microsoft Azure Database Administrator certification.
- Cloud-platform certification.
- PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, or Oracle certification.
- ITIL or ServiceNow certification.
Vacancy posted 2 days ago
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