Senior SQL Database Administrator - Remote & Performance Lead

FullStack; La Plata; Remote; ARS 181,906,000 - 242,542,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

100% remote work

Work with startups & Fortune 500

Continuing education

Career growth

Job summary

FullStack seeks a Principal SQL Database Administrator to collaborate with US clients on flexible, project-based development work. You will integrate into client teams and work with designers and engineers daily, managing large SQL Server environments across 1,000+ databases, ensuring performance and reliability.

Required are 8+ years of DBA experience and advanced English; a four-year college degree is expected.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional Database Administration experience.
• Advanced English is required.
• Successful completion of a four-year college degree is required.
• Demonstrated experience administering and maintaining Microsoft SQL Server at significant scale, ideally across 1,000+ databases or an equivalent enterprise environment.
• Deep expertise in SQL Server administration within Windows-hosted environments.
• Strong experience with SQL Server performance tuning, troubleshooting, and optimization.
• Advanced knowledge of SQL Server indexing strategies and index optimization.
• Strong experience analyzing execution plans, query performance, waits, blocking, locking, and other SQL Server performance indicators.
• Proven ability to identify and resolve database performance bottlenecks proactively.
• Strong understanding of SQL Server maintenance and ongoing database health management.
• Demonstrated ability to establish database administration standards, procedures, and best practices in environments where formal DBA processes may not yet exist.
• Proven experience troubleshooting complex production database issues and determining root causes.
• Consultative mindset with the confidence to challenge ineffective approaches and recommend better technical solutions.
• Ability to operate at scale, prioritizing issues and improvements across a large number of databases without losing attention to operational detail.
• Strong ownership mentality, with the ability to independently manage the health and performance of a large database environment.
• Availability to work with regular overlap during Canadian business hours, aligned with either Vancouver/Pacific Time or Toronto/Eastern Time.
• Ability to work through new and difficult issues and contribute to libraries as needed.
• Ability to create and maintain continuous integration and delivery of applications.
• Forensic attention to detail.
• A positive mindset and a can-do attitude.
• Experience working on Agile / Scrum teams.
• Meaningful experience working on large, complex systems.
• Ability to take extreme ownership over your work. Every day is a challenge to ensure you are performing to the expectations you and your team have agreed upon.
• Ability to identify with the goals of FullStack's clients, and dedicate yourself to delivering on the commitments you and your team make to them.

Skills

SQL Server administration

Performance tuning

Query execution plans

Windows server environments

Production database troubleshooting

Agile / Scrum

CI/CD

System design

Education

Four-year college degree

Tools

Microsoft SQL Server

Job description

FullStack seeks a Principal SQL Database Administrator to collaborate with US clients on flexible, project-based development work. You will integrate into client teams and work with designers and engineers daily, managing large SQL Server environments across 1,000+ databases, ensuring performance and reliability.

Required are 8+ years of DBA experience and advanced English; a four-year college degree is expected.