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This role is built specifically for high-density weekend coverage, ensuring our customers' production workloads stay online, optimized, and secure while the weekday team is off.\nYou will connect to multiple clients, handle live screen-share sessions, and troubleshoot issues on the fly. You need to be comfortable dealing with everything from sudden tempdb contention to fixing broken replication while keeping the customer calm and informed.\nWhat you will be doing\nUrgent Response: Acting as the first line of defense for critical SQL Server Agent alerts, severity errors, and urgent customer calls regarding issues with their SQL Server systems.\n Weekend Operations: Executing scheduled maintenance windows, including applying Cumulative Updates (CUs), managing index/statistics rebuilds, running DBCC CHECKDB, and safely deploying schema changes.\nClearing the Queue: Working through the ticket backlog and picking up specific handoffs, such as monitoring a long-running migration, from the weekday DBA team.\nStaying Connected: Since this is a remote role, you will need to manage your own time, stay proactive, and communicate clearly in our team channels throughout your shift.\nAdmin Tasks: Accurately recording ticket and timesheet entries for client billing.\nThe Schedule\nThis is a part-time role requiring a total of 17 hours per week. You must be comfortable working a 13-hour weekend shift.\nSaturday: Up to 2 hours of preparation\nSunday: 8:00 AM - 9:00 PM Mountain Time\nThere may also be opportunities to cover the other weekend shift when the team member assigned to that shift is out or unavailable.\nRequirements\nWhat you bring to your new team\nExperience: 2-5 years working as a production support SQL Server DBA.\n Platform Knowledge: Hands-on experience administering SQL Server 2012 through 2025, including instance-level best practices (MAXDOP, cost threshold, max server memory) and security protocols.\nT-SQL & Performance Tuning: Ability to write T-SQL from scratch and read execution plans. You should be able to identify parameter sniffing, resolve deadlocks, and rewrite poorly performing queries, stored procedures, and triggers.\nCore DBA Tasks: A solid grasp of native backups and point-in-time restores, database file management, and patching instances.\n High Availability: Practical experience building, troubleshooting, and failing over Always On Availability Groups (AGs) and Windows Server Failover Clusters (WSFC).\nData Integration: Familiarity with deploying, executing, and troubleshooting SSIS packages.\nCommunication: Excellent verbal and written skills with the ability to explain complex engine behaviors and root-cause analyses clearly to non-DBA clients.\n Education: High school diploma or equivalent required.\nHow you add even MORE value\nDemonstrated knowledge and skills typically acquired through an Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or through relevant professional experience.\nExperience migrating or managing SQL Server workloads in the Cloud (AWS RDS/EC2 or Azure SQL/Managed Instance).\nActive Microsoft Certifications (e.g., Azure Data Fundamentals, Azure Database Administrator Associate).\nExperience configuring and deploying SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).\nA background in technical support or call center support.\nGet to know XTIVIA XTIVIA is an innovative B2B technology enterprise solutions company committed to providing integrated technology solutions and services, delivering measurable results as a trusted industry thought leader for 30 years. Our services include managed services and business solutions, DevOps, CRM, and ITSM; database support and management; application solutions, including mobile apps; ERP solutions for GovCon and the private sector; and platform integration, with APIs as well as digital experience CMS solutions. If you can imagine the business outcome, XTIVIA can create it with technology.\nXTIVIA has offices in Colorado, New York, New Jersey, Texas, and Virginia. xtivia.com\nHow we take care of our team members\nFor XTIVIA to recruit-and retain-the most experienced and talented people, we offer a competitive benefits package designed to support our team members' professional and personal well-being. Our employees are our corporate family, and we believe in treating people the way we would like to be treated. For this part-time role, we provide a 401(k) plan with a company match, an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family, and comprehensive identity and fraud protection. To promote a healthy work-life balance, XTIVIA offers flexible work options and a specialized paid time off program for our hourly team members, providing 80 hours (10 days) of PTO annually to help you recharge without worrying about accruals. In addition, we encourage ongoing career development by offering paid training and certification opportunities to help you stay at the forefront of SQL Server technology. Our benefits are designed around our culture and core values, contributing to XTIVIA being certified 5 years in a row as a Great Place to Work.\nThis position has an expected salary range of $35.00 - $55.00/hour.Your compensation is based on your skills and experience. 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