Database Administrator Sr

Citizenship Requirement:

Candidate should be a US citizen or lawful permanent residents (Green card holder, permanent resident or naturalized citizen), should be able to clear the background check as per government norms as this position is for USPS project.

Must be able to obtain a US security clearance

About the opportunity :

This position provides implementation, administration, support, monitoring and maintenance of the SQL Database environments across multiple cloud environments. The candidate will be joining the Cloud Database Engineering team being responsible for timely resolution of issues that impact database server usability, making sure systems are sized, built, and configured for optimal operation.

What you'll get to do :

Provide administration and support for mission critical and pre-production database environments

Design and implementation of Azure cloud databases, high-availability solutions, replication, encryption, and disaster recovery solutions.

Migration of on-premises database to the Azure Cloud using SQL on VM, SQL MI and Azure SQL Database

Perform and manage daily database maintenance, monitoring and performance tuning tasks

Provide technical leadership through example, develop innovation, strategies, processes, and best practices

Responsible for database disaster recovery of all database environments which includes managing and supporting SQL backup policies

Identify and document performance and scaling improvements for development teams

Assist in the design and implementation of security, auditing and integrity controls

Benchmark, analyze, report on, and make recommendations for the improvement and growth of the SQL transactional replication infrastructure

Provide guidance to Jr level DBAs

Provide 24x7 On-Call administration and support

Skills and Experience we value :

At least 8+ years of recent experience maintaining and administrating mission-critical database environments

Large enterprise production environments with high transaction volume

SQL Server 2017, 2019, 2022 and 2025

Cloud database solutions including SQL on VM, SQL managed instance, Azure SQL Database

NoSQL database technologies such as MongoDB and CosmosDB

Data streaming and caching technologies such as Kafka and Redis

PowerShell and Azure CLI

Automation of processes to improve efficiency

Database triaging, tuning and monitoring

Database design and application development life cycle

Expert in troubleshooting, problem solving and initiative

Excellent planning, time management, documentation skills

Expert in T-SQL, SQL Profiler and PowerShell skills

Expert in SQL monitoring tools SQL Sentry and DBA Dash

Experience in managing Human Capital Management SaaS database systems

Easily adapts to changing priorities

Effective communication with distributed team members

Works well individually and within a team

Ability to conduct research into database issues and products and present ideas in a business-appropriate and user-friendly language.