SQL Server DBA (100% Remote)

Kforce's client, a healthcare organization, is seeking a Senior SQL Server Database Administrator to support large-scale, high-transaction production database environments. This is a hands-on senior-level role responsible for the performance, availability, security, resiliency, and operational stability of business-critical Microsoft SQL Server platforms across both traditional and Azure environments. The ideal candidate has extensive experience supporting SQL Server at significant scale and can independently troubleshoot complex production issues, optimize database and query performance, maintain highly available environments, and help ensure reliable database operations. This is a 100% remote position available to candidates located anywhere within the United States. What You'll Do:

• Administer and support large-scale production Microsoft SQL Server environments
• Manage database provisioning, configuration, patching, maintenance, and upgrades
• Administer and support Azure SQL and SQL Server workloads hosted in Azure
• Maintain and troubleshoot high-availability and disaster-recovery solutions, including technologies such as Always On availability groups, failover clustering, replication, and log shipping
• Perform database backup, restore, recovery, and validation activities
• Monitor database availability, health, capacity, resource utilization, and performance
• Diagnose and resolve complex query, indexing, locking, blocking, and database performance issues
• Tune T-SQL queries, analyze execution plans, and implement effective indexing strategies
• Support application releases and validate database-related changes
• Implement and maintain database security controls, access management, and compliance requirements
• Perform capacity planning and help forecast future database storage and performance requirements
• Troubleshoot production database incidents, identify root causes, and implement long-term corrective solutions
• 10+ years of relevant experience administering Microsoft SQL Server environments
• Extensive hands-on experience supporting enterprise-scale, production SQL Server databases
• Direct experience supporting databases of 30+ TB
• Experience supporting high-throughput database environments handling approximately 80,000 transactions per second
• Hands-on experience with Azure SQL and/or SQL Server workloads hosted in Microsoft Azure
• Advanced knowledge of T-SQL, query tuning, execution plans, and indexing strategies
• Strong experience with SQL Server high availability and disaster recovery, including technologies such as Always On availability groups, failover clustering, replication, and/or log shipping
• Strong experience with enterprise backup, restore, and recovery processes
• Experience using database monitoring and performance tools to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues
• Working familiarity with SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), including an understanding of how they interact with SQL Server environments
• Deep development-level expertise with SSIS or SSRS is not required
• Experience supporting application deployments and evaluating database-related production changes
• Working knowledge of database security, access management, and compliance controls

• Experience supporting complex, highly available, business-critical database environments
• Experience with database capacity planning and infrastructure forecasting
• Experience collaborating with application and engineering teams to identify and resolve database-related application performance issues