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We have over 40 years of excellence in uniting talent and technology to power the possible for our clients, colleagues, and communities. As a privately held company, we have the freedom and focus to do what is right-whatever it takes. Our tailor-made solutions create lasting results across the public and commercial sectors, and we are trailblazers in bringing neurodiversity to the enterprise.\nJob Summary\nWe are looking for a motivated Senior SQL Server Database Administrator to join our team and manage enterprise database environments. If you have strong expertise in SQL Server administration, performance tuning, database optimization, backup and recovery, high availability solutions, and production support and are looking for your next career move, apply now.Job Description\nWe are looking for a Senior SQL Server Database Administrator to manage, maintain, and optimize enterprise database environments. 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