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It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass.\n Versant is seeking a SQL Database Administrator II to help ensure the reliability, performance, security, and ongoing improvement of our database environment across cloud and on-premises infrastructure.\nIn this Level 2 role, you’ll administer and troubleshoot SQL Server environments while also supporting relational database platforms such as MySQL and PostgreSQL. You’ll partner closely with Software Development, Data Engineering, QA, Infrastructure, and other technology teams to strengthen database operations through proactive monitoring, performance optimization, automation, observability, and resilient backup and disaster-recovery practices.\nSuccess in this role means maintaining highly available database platforms, identifying and mitigating operational risks, resolving complex production issues, and continuously improving the tools and practices that support reliable database engineering.\nWhy This Role Matters: Our database platforms support critical applications and workflows across Versant. Your work will directly contribute to the stability, scalability, security, and recoverability of the systems our teams rely on to operate effectively.\nThis is a remote role based in Florida. While the position is primarily remote, employees should expect opportunities for in-person collaboration, team meetings, or company events approximately 10% of the time.\n What You’ll Do\nOwn the health and reliability of SQL Server environments across Production, Staging, and Development, including SQL Server hosted on AWS RDS, maintaining availability in accordance with established SLAs, SLOs, RTOs, and RPOs.\nSupport and administer additional relational database platforms, including MySQL and PostgreSQL, as needed across cloud and on-premises environments, applying consistent standards for reliability, security, performance, backup, and recovery.\nMonitor and optimize database performance and capacity using execution plans, Query Store, wait statistics, Extended Events, indexing analysis, observability platforms, and other diagnostic tools to proactively identify and resolve issues.\nStrengthen database security and resilience by administering access and permissions using least-privilege practices and designing, implementing, testing, and validating backup, restore, high-availability, and disaster-recovery strategies.\nPartner with engineering teams throughout the development lifecycle to improve T-SQL, query and schema design, indexing, CI/CD workflows, automated deployments, data migrations, integrations, and post-deployment validation.\nAutomate repeatable database operations and improve production support using infrastructure-as-code, PowerShell, and other scripting technologies while enhancing monitoring, alerting, dashboards, incident response, root-cause analysis, and technical documentation.\nWhat You Bring\n5+ years of hands-on SQL Server transactional database administration experience, including production database environments.\nStrong SQL Server administration expertise across configuration, security, permissions, maintenance, backups, restores, troubleshooting, and operational support.\nStrong experience with AWS database and infrastructure services, particularly RDS, Secrets Manager, S3, CloudWatch, and related technologies.\nAdvanced SQL Server performance analysis and optimization capabilities, including execution plans, Query Store, index design, wait statistics, blocking analysis, query tuning, Extended Events, and related diagnostic technologies.\nStrong knowledge of SQL Server concurrency and transaction behavior, including isolation levels, locking, blocking, and deadlocks.\nExperience designing and supporting high-availability and disaster-recovery solutions, including Always On Availability Groups, backup and restore strategies, and RTO/RPO planning.\nStrong proficiency in T-SQL and PowerShell, with experience using automation to improve database administration and operational workflows.\nWorking knowledge of MySQL and PostgreSQL administration, including configuration, monitoring, security, backup and restore, and troubleshooting in production environments.\nExperience with source control and 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respond effectively to production incidents, and continuously improve database environments as business and technology needs evolve.\nEntrepreneurial Spirit: Look for opportunities to automate manual work, improve database engineering practices, and build scalable solutions rather than relying on one-time fixes.\nBonus Points\nExperience with Python or Bash.\nExperience with MySQL or PostgreSQL in AWS-managed services such as Amazon RDS or Aurora.\nExperience operating and optimizing heterogeneous database environments that include SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.\nExperience building infrastructure-as-code or other repeatable database provisioning and configuration workflows.\nExperience supporting data integration, migration, or replication across systems and environments.\nWhy You’ll Love It Here\nYou’ll have the opportunity to work on database platforms that support Versant’s portfolio of media and entertainment businesses while collaborating with experienced technology teams across multiple disciplines.\nThis role offers meaningful ownership of database reliability and engineering practices, with opportunities to improve automation, observability, performance, security, and operational resilience across SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL environments.\nAs a remote Florida-based employee, you’ll primarily work remotely while participating in in-person collaboration opportunities, team gatherings, or company events approximately 10% of the time.\n As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. VERSANT Media's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.\nFor LA County and City Residents Only: VERSANT Media will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories, or arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, where applicable.\nIf you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. 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