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eSystems, Inc.

Location:
United States, Columbia

Category:
IT - Administration

Contract Type:
Employment contract

Salary:

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Job Description:

Primarily, this position will provide senior-level support and guidance to our Child Care team, including mentoring Child Care developers on schema and query design, execution-plan review/tuning, and security best practices. In addition to this, this position will assist (at a senior-level) with the support, maintenance, security, and availability of the agency s SQL Server environment for other application teams, while prioritizing Child Care commitments.

Job Responsibility:

Provide senior-level support and guidance to our Child Care team, including mentoring Child Care developers on schema and query design, execution-plan review/tuning, and security best practices
Assist (at a senior-level) with the support, maintenance, security, and availability of the agency s SQL Server environment for other application teams, while prioritizing Child Care commitments
Designs, develops, implements, and maintains database, procedures, and functions that accommodate changing business priorities and technological changes while ensuring availability, scalability, performance, recoverability, reliability, and security
Acts as liaison for SQL Server database performance, integration, migration, upgrade, storage, and replication strategies
Performs SQL Server performance tuning: waits/Query Store analysis, index & stats optimization, SARG ability fixes, and parallelism tuning
Monitors the database systems to ensure secure services with minimum downtime
configures alerts and telemetry for proactive detection
Interacts with project management and Agile development teams to develop a strong understanding of project and database development objectives
Participates in troubleshooting and triaging of issues with different team members to drive towards root cause identification and resolution
Documents, tracks and escalates issues as appropriate
Participates in Scrum teams in support of Agile projects
end-to-end support for build, deployment, and operational activities
Exercises considerable latitude, discretion, and independent judgment in determining technical objectives of assignments
Performs routine operations and maintenance including installations, upgrades, patching, monitoring, auditing, and issue resolution
Manages and prioritizes multiple, diverse tasks simultaneously
Must be flexible, independent and self-motivated
Work collaboratively to meet team goals/mission

Requirements:

Database Administration Expert 6+ Years
Backup/Recovery Expert 6+ Years
Performance Tuning Expert 6+ Years
RDBMS Expert 6+ Years
SQL Server Expert 6+ Years
T-SQL Expert 6+ Years
Failover Clusters Expert 2-4 Years
High-Availability Expert 2-4 Years
DMVs Expert 2-4 Years
SSIS Services Expert 2-4 Years
SSRS Expert 2-4 Years
Profiler Expert 2-4 Years
SQL Tuning Expert 2-4 Years
Database planning, scaling, and capacity planning Expert 2-4 Years
SQL Server 2008R2 Expert 1-2 Years
SQL Server 2012 Expert 1-2 Years
SQL Server 2014 Expert 1-2 Years
SQL Server 2016 Expert 1-2 Years
ETL Advanced 2-4 Years
SSAS Advanced 2-4 Years
Verbal Communication Intermediate 2-4 Years
Written Communication Intermediate 2-4 Years
PowerShell Intermediate 1-2 Years
RedGate Toolset Intermediate 1-2 Years
SDLC Intermediate 1-2 Years
Provides after-hours or weekend maintenance as needed
Perform other duties as assigned

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 08, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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