{"id":1155583,"url":"https://alion.io/job/financial-statement-services-inc-microsoft-sql-database-administrator","title":"Microsoft SQL Database Administrator","company":{"id":4218,"name":"Financial Statement Services Inc.","domain":"financialstatementservices.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/financialstatementservices","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Workable","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":96,"open_postings":13,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.154,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Data Science","role_family":"Data Science","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":103000,"max_usd":220000,"period":"year","method":"role_country_seniority_unknown","sample_n":1667},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"ETL/ELT","optional":false},{"name":"Least Privilege","optional":false},{"name":"MS SQL","optional":false},{"name":"PowerShell","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"SSIS","optional":false},{"name":"Windows Server","optional":false},{"name":"Active Directory","optional":true},{"name":"Azure SQL Database","optional":true},{"name":"Git","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-23T21:25:05Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-23","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T01:00:15Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Join Team FSSI and Become an Employee-Owner!\nWho We Are:\nOpening its doors over 45 years ago, FSSI is a leading document outsourcing company servicing Fortune 500 companies in the financial, banking, insurance and billing industries across the U.S. We are currently looking for a Microsoft SQL Database Administrator to join our FSSI East Development team.\nLocation: This is aremote opportunity open to candidates residing in the following states: Florida, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Vermont, Texas, and Alabama. Candidates who are interested in a hybrid or onsite arrangement may also work from our facilities in Lincoln, RI or Orlando, FL.\nThis role is responsible for the administration, availability, performance, security, integrity, and recoverability of Microsoft SQL Server database environments supporting FSSI business and production systems. Responsibilities include installing, configuring, monitoring, maintaining, troubleshooting, and optimizing SQL Server platforms; supporting application and development teams; implementing backup, recovery, high-availability, and disaster-recovery solutions; and ensuring database environments comply with FSSI security, change-management, and operational standards.\nWe are looking for a hands-on, experienced SQL Server Database Administrator who can step into the role and make an immediate impact. Our ideal candidate takes ownership, can assess situations independently, identify potential issues, and bring practical solutions and recommendations to the table. You’ll work closely with our IT, development, infrastructure, and business teams, so strong communication and the ability to explain technical issues and solutions are important. You’ll receive training on FSSI-specific applications and procedures, but we’re looking for someone who already understands how to be a DBA and can apply that knowledge in a new environment.\nYour Essential Duties:\nAdminister, configure, monitor, patch, upgrade, and maintain Microsoft SQL Server database environments across development, test, and production systems.\nInstall and configure SQL Server instances, databases, SQL Server Agent jobs, linked servers, maintenance plans, and related database services.\nMonitor database availability, capacity, performance, blocking, deadlocks, waits, storage utilization, and overall system health; proactively identify and resolve issues.\nPerform SQL performance tuning, including query analysis, execution-plan review, indexing strategy, statistics maintenance, and optimization of stored procedures and database objects.\nDesign, implement, test, and maintain backup and recovery strategies that meet established recovery point and recovery time objectives.\nSupport high-availability and disaster-recovery technologies such as SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, failover clustering, log shipping, and replication as appropriate.\nManage database security, roles, permissions, service accounts, encryption, auditing, and access controls in accordance with least-privilege and FSSI security standards.\nApply SQL Server security updates, cumulative updates, and version upgrades using approved change-management and testing processes.\nCreate, review, and maintain T-SQL scripts, stored procedures, functions, views, indexes, SQL Agent jobs, and database maintenance routines.\nPartner with application developers to review database designs, data models, queries, stored procedures, and deployment scripts for performance, scalability, reliability, and security.\nSupport database deployments through CI/CD and DevOps processes and participate in release planning, validation, rollback, and post-deployment monitoring.\nAutomate routine database administration activities using PowerShell, T-SQL, SQL Server Agent, and other approved scripting and orchestration tools.\nMaintain database documentation, configuration standards, data dictionaries, runbooks, recovery procedures, and operational support documentation.\nParticipate in incident response, root-cause analysis, problem management, and production support for database-related issues.\nMonitor and manage capacity, storage growth, retention requirements, archiving, and data lifecycle needs.\nSupport integrations and data movement using technologies such as SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), APIs, ETL/ELT processes, and secure file/data transfer mechanisms.\nWork with infrastructure, security, development, QA, and DevOps teams to ensure reliable and secure database services.\nEvaluate and support SQL Server workloads hosted on-premises and in cloud environments, including SQL Server hosted in AWS.\nEnsure database systems and changes comply with FSSI security, audit, business-continuity, change-management, and production standards.\nRequirements\nWhat You Bring:\nBachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Database Administration, Software Engineering, or a related field preferred; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.\n2-4 years of experience administering Microsoft SQL Server environments preferred.\nMicrosoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate (DP-300) strongly preferred, or an equivalent current Microsoft data-platform/database administration certification.\nAdditional current Microsoft Azure, Windows Server, security, or data-platform certifications are preferred.\nRelevant AWS, CompTIA, or other recognized infrastructure/security certifications are a plus.\nDemonstrated continuing education in Microsoft SQL Server, cloud database platforms, security, high availability, performance tuning, and database automation is preferred.\nStrong knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server administration, architecture, configuration, security, backup/recovery, and performance tuning.\nProficiency with T-SQL, SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), SQL Server Agent, execution plans, indexing, stored procedures, and database troubleshooting.\nWorking knowledge of SQL Server high-availability and disaster-recovery technologies, including Always On Availability Groups and failover concepts.\nExperience with database backup, restore, recovery testing, integrity checks, and disaster-recovery procedures.\nUnderstanding of database security concepts including least privilege, role-based access, encryption, auditing, authentication, and secure configuration.\nExperience using PowerShell and/or T-SQL to automate database administration and operational tasks.\nFamiliarity with Windows Server, Active Directory, networking, storage, virtualization, and infrastructure concepts that affect SQL Server.\nFamiliarity with Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, SQL Server on Azure/AWS, or other cloud-hosted SQL Server environments.\nFamiliarity with DevOps practices, Git, CI/CD pipelines, database deployment tooling, monitoring, and observability.\nStrong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and problem-solving skills.\nAbility to participate in scheduled maintenance and production support activities as business needs require.\nBenefits\nWhy Join Us?\n Employee Ownership through our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP): When you join our team, you’re not just an employee; you become an employee-owner, sharing in the success of our company and shaping its future. \nCulture of CARE for our Employees: We go beyond traditional health and wellness programs, offering in person and virtual Care Partners whose only mission is the health and happiness of our employees and their families.\nIndustry Leadership: FSSI is a technology-driven leader in document services, focused on providing best-in-class services and dedicated to utilizing industry-leading software and equipment.\nBenefits include:\n401(k) & Roth + Employee Stock Ownership Plan\nMedical, Dental, Vision & Life Insurance\nVacation, sick leave and paid holidays - including your birthday! \nEmployee Assistance & Care Programs\nAdditional perks & employee award programs","description_format":"text","description_chars":7922,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Life insurance","Wellness"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"},{"name":"Florida","iso":null,"kind":"city"},{"name":"Texas","iso":null,"kind":"city"},{"name":"Massachusetts","iso":null,"kind":"city"},{"name":"Connecticut","iso":null,"kind":"city"},{"name":"Alabama","iso":null,"kind":"city"},{"name":"New York","iso":null,"kind":"city"},{"name":"Vermont","iso":null,"kind":"city"},{"name":"Rhode Island","iso":null,"kind":"city"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Financial Services","Audit"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-23T21:25:05Z"}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":21,"reasons":["conf:0","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-24T01:45:52Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/financial-statement-services-inc-microsoft-sql-database-administrator","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/financial-statement-services-inc-microsoft-sql-database-administrator.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-24T01:45:52Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}