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Senior Database Administrator

United States, Columbia Employment contract · Job Posted December 08, 2025
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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

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