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Performance Tuning & Incident Management\nLead incident response and root cause analysis for production database issues.Troubleshoot query plan regressions, TempDB contention, deadlocks, and blocking issues.Perform index and statistics maintenance to ensure optimal database performance.Review developers' T-SQL queries and schema changes before deployment. Advise developers on table design, indexing strategies, and database performance optimization.\n\n3. Database Security & Compliance\nMaintain database security through Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), auditing, and certificate and key rotation.Monitor anomalous database access patterns and ensure appropriate security controls.\nHandle confidential or legally sensitive data requests following established processes.Maintain database security standards and support compliance requirements.\n\n4. Database Maintenance & Capacity Planning\nPerform quarterly cumulative update patching across database environments.Manage partitioning and archiving on multi-terabyte databases without impacting production performance.\nOwn capacity planning for storage, CPU, and memory.Manage recurring environment refreshes across staging, development, and QA environments.Ensure production maintenance activities are performed safely with minimal downtime.\n\n5. Disaster Recovery & Database Migrations\nDesign, implement, and test disaster recovery strategies for SQL Server environments.Support customer instance migrations between regions, including database preparation and validation.\nPerform regular DR testing and ensure database recovery readiness. Manage large-scale database migrations while maintaining availability and data integrity.\n\n6. Production Operations & Support\nProvide on-call, weekend maintenance, and after-hours support as required.Maintain clear documentation of database changes, incidents, and recovery procedures.Work closely with engineering teams to ensure reliable database operations.Ensure production database changes follow established change control and operational procedures.\n\nMust-Have Requirements\n7+ years of hands-on Microsoft SQL Server DBA experience in a 24x7 production environment. SQL development experience alone is not sufficient.\n3+ years of direct experience with Always On Availability Groups, including failover handling and synchronization delay troubleshooting.\nExperience managing multi-terabyte production databases, including partitioning, archiving, and index and statistics maintenance without blocking production.\nExperience leading incident response and root cause analysis for production database issues.\nStrong experience with database security practices, including TDE, auditing, certificate rotation, and key management.\nHands-on experience with SQL Server performance tuning, query optimization, and production troubleshooting.\nExperience designing and testing disaster recovery strategies.\nEnglish fluency sufficient for real-time incident communication, with meaningful business-hours overlap with Pacific time.\nNice-to-Have Skills\nExperience supporting a SaaS CRM or similarly high-transaction-volume application.\nExposure to Snowflake, Redshift, 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