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With innovation, qualityandlogisticsas the backbone of the company, Sourceability’scutting-edgeproducts and services expeditethe procurement process across a wide range of industries, including communications/cellular, consumer electronics, and auto manufacturing. \nSourceability is building a new Global Engineering Organization (GEO) to strengthen internal software delivery, improve production ownership, and build long-term engineering capability inside the company.\nWe are looking for a Senior SQL Server DBA to own and improve the reliability, performance, recoverability, and operational quality of Sourceability's database and data platform environments. This role will focus primarily on SQL Server-backed business-critical systems, including production stability, high availability, disaster recovery, backup / recovery, performance tuning, schema review, and support for engineering teams.\nThis is a hands-on technical role inside the Platform, DevOps & Data function. The Senior SQL Server DBA will work closely with Software Engineering, Product Group Team Leads / Architects, DevOps / Platform, Infrastructure & Security, QA, Product / Delivery, and business stakeholders to reduce database-related production risk and improve delivery reliability.\nThis role is not only a generic data engineering or analytics platform role. Data pipelines, reporting feeds, and data platform support are important, but the first priority is reliable operation of current production databases and safe support for software delivery.\nThis role is hybrid from our Singapore office. \nInsight on Your Impact:\nOwn day-to-day technical operation, reliability, performance, and recoverability of assigned SQL Server and related database environments.\nSupport production, QA, UAT, staging, and development database environments used by Sourceability's business-critical applications.\nMaintain and improve database backup, restore, recovery validation, retention, and disaster recovery procedures.\nSupport high availability and disaster recovery designs, including SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups, replication, failover readiness, and RPO / RTO expectations where applicable.\nMonitor database health, performance, storage, jobs, blocking, deadlocks, replication, HA status, and backup completion.\nDiagnose and resolve database performance issues, including slow queries, execution plans, indexing, statistics, locking, blocking, tempdb pressure, and resource contention.\nReview schema changes, stored procedures, indexes, data access patterns, and query designs with software engineering teams before production deployment.\nPartner with Product Group Team Leads / Architects and software engineers to improve database design, data access reliability, and maintainability.\nSupport release readiness by validating database scripts, migration plans, rollback procedures, deployment dependencies, and production impact.\nParticipate in L2 / L3 escalation for database-related production issues, urgent defects, data integrity concerns, and business-impacting incidents.\nLead or contribute to root cause analysis for database-related incidents and define practical remediation actions.\nIdentify database technical debt, single points of failure, fragile jobs, undocumented dependencies, and operational risks.\nCreate and maintain practical documentation for database architecture, maintenance jobs, backup / recovery procedures, HA / DR processes, troubleshooting steps, and operational runbooks.\nSupport ETL / ELT, integrations, reporting data feeds, analytics extracts, and internal data platform needs while protecting production database stability.\nHelp improve monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, and operational visibility for database and data platform environments.\nEnsure DBA and data platform work is tracked and communicated through agreed tools and processes, including Azure DevOps where applicable.\nYour Qualifications, Your Influence:\n5+ years of experience as a DBA, database engineer, data platform engineer, or similar hands-on production database role.\nStrong hands-on experience with Microsoft SQL Server in production environments.\nStrong understanding of SQL Server performance tuning, execution plans, indexing, statistics, query optimization, locking, blocking, deadlocks, and capacity planning.\nExperience with backup, restore, recovery testing, disaster recovery, and high availability in business-critical environments.\nExperience with SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups, replication, log shipping, clustering, or similar HA / DR technologies is strongly preferred.\nExperience supporting production incidents, urgent defect investigations, root cause analysis, and post-incident remediation.\nAbility to review schema changes, stored procedures, database migrations, query patterns, and data access designs with software engineering teams.\nExperience working with development, QA, DevOps, infrastructure, security, product, and business teams during software delivery and production support.\nStrong understanding of data integrity, access control, database security, permission management, and operational controls.\nPractical experience with ETL / ELT, reporting feeds, SSIS, scheduled jobs, data exports, or data integration processes.\nExperience using Azure DevOps, Jira, Git, or similar tools for work tracking, change review, documentation, or delivery coordination.\nStrong analytical and troubleshooting skills with a methodical approach to diagnosing complex database and data issues.\nClear communication skills with ability to explain database risk, recovery options, performance issues, and delivery impact to technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nHigh ownership mindset, good judgment, and ability to make practical decisions under pressure.\nPreferred Skills and Technical Familiarity:\nExperience with SQL Server Enterprise features, AlwaysOn Availability Groups, failover testing, backup compression, partitioning, Query Store, Extended Events, and performance monitoring tools.\nExperience with Windows Server, IIS-backed applications, Active Directory-integrated access models, and Microsoft-based enterprise environments.\nExperience with Azure SQL, Azure Managed Instance, AWS RDS for SQL Server, or other cloud-hosted database services.\nExperience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, or other database platforms is helpful but secondary to SQL Server expertise.\nExperience with data pipeline tooling such as SSIS, Airflow, dbt, Azure Data Factory, or similar tools.\nExperience supporting data warehousing, analytics platforms, Power BI feeds, reporting databases, operational data stores, or integration databases.\nExperience with monitoring tools such as Zabbix, Grafana, Prometheus, Azure Monitor, Datadog, SolarWinds, SQL Sentry, Redgate, or similar.\nExperience in electronic components, technology distribution, supply chain, logistics, manufacturing, e-commerce, or similar B2B environments.\nUnderstanding of data governance, data quality, metadata management, retention, privacy, and compliance requirements.\nExperience improving database operational maturity in an organization where process, ownership, and documentation are still developing.\nSuccess in the First 90 Days:\nUnderstand Sourceability's key database environments, production systems, data flows, HA / DR design, backup processes, monitoring coverage, and major database-related risks.\nEstablish working relationships with Platform, DevOps & Data leadership, Software Engineering, Product Group Team Leads / Architects, DevOps, Infrastructure & Security, QA, Product / Delivery, and business stakeholders.\nReview current backup / restore processes and identify gaps in recovery validation, retention, documentation, and ownership.\nReview current SQL Server HA / DR posture, failover readiness, RPO / RTO risks, monitoring gaps, and single points of failure.\nIdentify the most important database performance, stability, technical debt, and maintainability risks.\nImprove visibility into database health, backups, jobs, storage, performance, HA status, and production alerts.\nEstablish or improve practical processes for database change review, release readiness, migration validation, and rollback planning.\nDocument critical operational procedures, troubleshooting steps, ownership boundaries, and escalation paths.\nDeliver at least one meaningful improvement that reduces production database risk, improves recovery confidence, or removes a recurring operational issue.\nCreate an initial database reliability and data platform improvement plan aligned with GEO priorities and engineering capacity.\nWhat This Role Does Not Own:\nThis role does not own business prioritization or business requirements. Product / Delivery Managers and business stakeholders remain responsible for intake, priority alignment, UAT coordination, and business acceptance.\nThis role does not own application architecture for product groups. Product Group Team Leads / Architects remain responsible for application-level technical design, with DBA partnership on data design and database impact.\nThis role does not replace Infrastructure & Security ownership for servers, storage, network, identity, security operations, and physical / virtual infrastructure. It must work closely with Infrastructure & Security where database reliability depends on infrastructure.\nThis role does not independently approve production releases. It provides database readiness input, risk assessment, migration validation, and rollback guidance as part of the release process.\nThis role should not turn data platform work into a separate analytics-only function at the expense of production database reliability. Production reliability remains the first priority.\nBenefits:\nCompetitive salary\nOngoing training and professional development opportunities\nCollaborative global work environment\nPTO\nEQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. \nIt is our policy to abide by all federal, state and local laws prohibiting employment discrimination based on a person’s race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy, childbirth, physical disability, mental and/or intellectual disability, age, military status, veteran status (including protected veterans), marital status, registered domestic partner or civil union status, familial status, gender (including sex stereotyping and gender identity or expression), medical condition (including, but not limited to, cancer related or HIV/AIDS related), genetic information, sexual orientation, or any other protected status.","description_format":"text","description_chars":10715,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Professional development"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Transportation & Logistics","Supply Chain","Electronic Components Distribution"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-26T12:39:37Z"}],"liveness":{"score":8,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.293,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":121,"expected_fill_days":47,"reasons":["conf:3","stale_co","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-09-28T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/sourceability-senior-sql-server-dba-2","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/sourceability-senior-sql-server-dba-2.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-28T23:07:09Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":689,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4311,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-29T00:00:00Z"}}}