- Plano, Texas, United States
- Senior
- 7+ years
Senior SQL Server DBA responsible for operational ownership of the SQL Server estate hosted on Microsoft Azure virtual machines, focusing on performance, automation, reliability, and modernization.
Responsibilities
- Drive database health, capacity planning, indexing strategy, query performance, storage management, and resource utilization across large and VLDB-class SQL Server environments.
- Improve backup, restore, integrity-check, maintenance, migration, and nonproduction refresh strategies for databases exceeding 1 TB.
- Maintain, troubleshoot, and improve production PowerShell scripts used for database administration, maintenance automation, monitoring, and operational data movement.
- Plan, test, and execute SQL Server version upgrades, patch management, database migrations, and server transitions across the estate.
- Manage SQL Server configuration and performance considerations within Microsoft Azure virtual machines, including compute sizing, storage design, disk throughput, networking, availability, backup integration, and coordination with infrastructure and security teams.
Requirements
- Nice to have: Python
- Nice to have: SaaS REST APIs
- Nice to have: Microsoft Dynamics GP
- Nice to have: ERP
- Nice to have: GitHub Actions