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This position designs, implements, monitors, optimizes, and supports highly available database platforms used by businesses, manufacturing, quality, reporting, integration, and infrastructure systems.\nServing as a database subject matter expert, the Sr. SQL Database Administrator partners with Infrastructure, Applications, Security, Quality, and business teams to maintain stable, secure, scalable, and compliant database services across on-premises and cloud environments.\nSpecific Duties and Responsibilities\nDatabase Operations, Availability & Performance:\nManage the day-to-day operations of enterprise database platforms, including configuration, maintenance, patching, backups, restores, performance, security, and capacity.\nAdminister, maintain, and optimize Microsoft SQL Server environments across on-premises, virtualized, and cloud-hosted platforms.\nMonitor database health, performance, job execution, storage utilization, blocking, deadlocks, replication, availability groups, and backup success.\nPerform database performance tuning, including query analysis, indexing strategy, execution plan review, statistics maintenance, wait analysis, and resource optimization.\nImplement and support high availability and disaster recovery solutions, including SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, clustering, log shipping, replication, backups, and restore testing.\nPlan and execute database maintenance activities, including index maintenance, integrity checks, patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management.\nSupport database capacity planning, storage forecasting, performance baselining, and scalability planning for business-critical systems.\nProvide after hours on-call support on a rotation schedule with other staff members.\nSecurity, Access Control & Data Integrity:\nMaintain database security controls, including authentication, authorization, least-privilege access, role-based permissions, encryption, auditing, and privileged access review.\nPartner with Security and Infrastructure teams to support secure database connectivity, certificate use, service accounts, firewall rules, vulnerability remediation, and patch compliance.\nProtect the integrity of enterprise data through routine DBCC checks, backup validation, restore testing, change review, and controlled release practices.\nReview and support database changes, schema updates, stored procedures, SQL Agent jobs, integrations, and application releases to reduce operational risk.\nMaintain database inventory, configuration standards, operational documentation, recovery procedures, and support runbooks.\nTroubleshooting, Automation & Continuous Improvement:\nLead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for complex database incidents, performance degradation, failed jobs, restore issues, connectivity problems, and application-impacting database events.\nDevelop and maintain automation for database maintenance, monitoring, alerting, reporting, backup validation, user access review, and operational support activities.\nCreate tools, dashboards, procedures, and documentation to support IT, Applications Development, Client Support, Quality, and business teams.\nRecommend database design, configuration, indexing, monitoring, security, and resiliency improvements to strengthen performance, reliability, security, and scalability.\nStay current with developments in database administration, SQL Server, Azure SQL, backup and recovery practices, automation, security, and enterprise compliance technologies.\nCompliance, Governance & Collaboration:\nFollow established change management, release management, incident management, security, and governance practices for database platforms.\nAdhere to the Company's Quality Management System (QMS) as well as domestic and global quality system regulations, standards, and procedures.\nUnderstand relevant security, privacy, and compliance principles and adhere to the regulations, standards, and procedures that are applicable to the Company.\nEnsure other members of the department to follow the QMS, regulations, standards, and procedures.\nEnsure database administration activities are documented, controlled, auditable, and aligned with applicable IT and quality system requirements.\nCollaborate with IT, application owners, business partners, vendors, and support teams to maintain reliable database operations and resolve issues effectively.\nCommunicate technical and complex database information clearly, both verbally and in writing.\nPerform other work-related duties as assigned.\nPosition Qualifications - Required:\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Data Management, or a related field with 8+ years of enterprise-level database administration and/or database engineering experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.\n5+ years of experience supporting high availability, disaster recovery, backup, restore, and database recovery strategies for business-critical systems.\nStrong experience with SQL Server performance tuning, indexing, query optimization, execution plans, wait statistics, SQL Agent jobs, and database maintenance plans.\nExperience administering SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, failover clustering, log shipping, replication, or equivalent high availability technologies.\nExperience with database security practices, including least privilege access, role-based permissions, encryption, auditing, service accounts, and privileged access controls.\nExperience with PowerShell, T-SQL scripting, automation, monitoring, alerting, and operational reporting.\nExperience with enterprise backup platforms, restore validation, database integrity checks, and disaster recovery testing.\nWorking knowledge of Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS, networking fundamentals, storage, virtualization, and cloud infrastructure as they relate to database services.\nAbility to plan, organize, and document complex database administration activities and configure systems in alignment with institutional policies and procedures.\nAbility to manage multiple priorities, handle concurrent projects, respond effectively to urgent or complex operational issues, and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nHigh degree of accuracy, attention to detail, data stewardship, documentation discipline, and organizational skills.\nPosition Qualifications - 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