Description

You will own the reliability, performance, security, and availability of our data platforms.

This role is remote.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, and maintain Microsoft SQL Server instances (2016+ on-prem, VMs, and Azure SQL).
• Design backup/restore strategies, test recovery procedures, and ensure RPO/RTO adherence.
• Implement HA/DR solutions including Always On Availability Groups, Log Shipping, Replication, and Failover Clustering.
• Diagnose performance issues using wait stats, query plans, and DMVs; optimize indexes, statistics, and TSQL.
• Set up monitoring, alerting, and on-call incident response with root-cause analysis and postmortems.

Required Skills

• 10+ years of experience with Microsoft SQL Server administration.
• Deep expertise in T-SQL, query tuning, and execution plan analysis.
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions for database CI/CD.
• Proficiency in DACPAC, SQL Compare, and automated migration scripts.
• Strong knowledge of security, RBAC, encryption, and compliance standards.
• Experience with capacity planning, storage optimization, and licensing.
• Ability to maintain documentation, runbooks, and architecture diagrams.

Preferred Skills

• Experience administering and optimizing PostgreSQL (configuration, backups, replication).
• Contribution to modernization or migration initiatives between SQL Server and PostgreSQL.

Key Skills

Education

Any Graduate