# Senior Engineer – Microsoft SQL Server Database Administration (Fixed Term)

Job Description Administer production and non-production Microsoft SQL Server environments, including instance configuration, database settings, recovery models, and routine maintenance Manage and monitor Always On Availability Groups and supporting Windows Server Failover Clustering infrastructure Monitor database synchronisation, investigate availability issues, and coordinate planned failovers and recovery activities Administer and troubleshoot SQL Server transactional replication and log shipping, resolving agent failures, synchronisation delays, and data delivery issues Manage full, differential, and transaction log backups, investigate backup failures, and perform database restores and recovery validation Coordinate SQL Server backup and recovery activities using enterprise backup platforms, including Commvault Perform daily database health checks covering availability, SQL Server services, SQL Server Agent jobs, backup status, storage capacity, and error logs Monitor database performance and investigate blocking, long-running queries, resource bottlenecks, and abnormal database growth Perform routine database maintenance, including index and statistics maintenance, integrity

- **Id**: 3667175
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/millenniumit-esp-senior-engineer-microsoft-sql-server-database-administration-fixed-term>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Colombo, Sri Lanka
- **Countries**: LK
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-03T07:14:32Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T11:22:50Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3700
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 2563097
- **Name**: MillenniumIT ESP
- **Domain**: mitesp.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/mitesp>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Manatal

## Technologies

- **Active Directory** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **CAPA** — Optional: no
- **MS SQL** — Optional: no
- **PowerShell** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **VMWare** — Optional: no
- **Windows Server** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-03T07:14:32Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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