Description

Microsoft SQL Server (Required) Administration & Operations

• SQL Server 2016 through SQL Server 2025 administration
• Backup, restore, recovery, and database refreshes between environments Security administration (logins, users, roles, AD group integration)
• Database access troubleshooting and permissions management
• SQL Agent job troubleshooting and maintenance
• Support ticket processing and incident response

Performance & Availability SQL performance tuning (query tuning, index optimization, execution plan analysis)

• Windows Failover Clustering and SQL Server clustered instances
• Always On Availability Groups
• High availability and disaster recovery planning/testing
• Storage and capacity management

Maintenance & Upgrades

• SQL Server migration projects to newer versions
• Migration planning and execution
• Database consistency checks and maintenance plans Monitoring and alerting tools experience

Security & Audit Database auditing and compliance reporting

• Service account and AD group troubleshooting
• Least privilege access model implementation

Azure & Cloud (Preferred) Basic Microsoft Azure administration experience Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance familiarity

• Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Instance familiarity
• Azure Storage Accounts, Blob Storage, and backup/recovery concepts
• Azure Virtual Machines hosting SQL Server workloads
• Azure networking awareness (Private Endpoints, VNets, Firewalls)
• Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Azure Arc awareness
• Azure identity and access management awareness (Entra ID/Azure AD integration)
• Experience supporting hybrid SQL environments (on premises and Azure)

Oracle (Preferred / Backup Support as needed) Administration

• Oracle 9i Data Guard, 10g, 11g on AIX
• Oracle 12c/19c multitenant architecture (CDB/PDB) on RHEL
• User account management, password resets, account unlocks Backup/recovery using RMAN
• Database cloning and refreshes
• Data Guard monitoring and standby synchronization Platform Support
• General PostgreSQL knowledge, ability to learn on the fly about options available as we onboard new solutions utilizing the too
• Oracle on AIX
• Oracle on RHEL/Linux
• Listener, TNS, and connectivity troubleshooting

Key Skills

Education

Any Graduate