Database Administrator and Engineer

Prestige Staffing; New York (NY); Remote; USD 103,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Prestige Staffing is seeking a Database Administrator/Engineer (SQL Server) for an enterprise-grade environment in New York, NY. This role focuses on database integrity, performance, availability, and recoverability, partnering with application teams while owning day-to-day operations and planned upgrades in production.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of DBA experience, strong SQL Server and MySQL skills, and a solid understanding of backup, security, and data governance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Database Administrator.
• Hands-on SQL Server experience (SQL Server 2016+).
• Experience supporting SQL Server and MySQL in a multi-node cluster environment.
• Strong knowledge of backup/recovery, security, data integrity, and T-SQL.
• Experience with database design for performance, development, and data warehousing.
• Strong troubleshooting and production support skills with clear stakeholder communication.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field (or equivalent combination of education and experience).
• Willingness to support after-hours work during planned implementations and unplanned outages as needed.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and optimize enterprise databases to ensure performance, stability, availability, and recoverability.
• Plan, coordinate, test, and execute database upgrades and migrations.
• Develop and standardize database deployment methodologies, processes, and documentation.
• Implement monitoring to capture production workloads and replay them in lower environments for upgrade testing.
• Partner with application development teams on database planning, design, implementation, and documentation.
• Troubleshoot production database issues and communicate root cause and resolution to stakeholders.
• Manage backup and recovery models; monitor jobs, health checks, and operational status.
• Monitor database growth and provide forecasting to support capacity planning.
• Enforce database conventions and security standards across the environment.

Skills

Production support

Stakeholder communication

Performance optimization

T-SQL

Database design

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Tools

SQL Server

MySQL

Job description

Job Title

Database Administrator / Database Engineer (SQL Server)

Pay

$75-$85/hr.

Location

New York, NY (Remote / 100% Remote)

Summary

Join a stable, enterprise environment supporting mission-critical database platforms across the organization. This role focuses on database integrity, performance, availability, and recoverability, partnering closely with application teams while owning day-to-day operations and planned upgrades in production.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a Database Administrator
• Hands-on SQL Server experience (SQL Server 2016 or newer)
• Experience supporting SQL Server and MySQL in a multi-node cluster environment
• Strong knowledge of backup/recovery strategies, security, data integrity, and T-SQL
• Experience with database design for performance optimization, application development, and data warehousing
• Strong troubleshooting and production support skills, including clear stakeholder communication
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field (or equivalent combination of education and experience)
• Willingness to support after-hours work during planned implementations and unplanned outages as needed

Responsibilities

• Maintain and optimize enterprise databases to ensure performance, stability, availability, and recoverability
• Plan, coordinate, test, and execute database upgrades and migrations
• Develop and standardize database deployment methodologies, processes, and documentation
• Implement monitoring to capture production workloads and replay them in lower environments for upgrade testing
• Partner with application development teams on database planning, design, implementation, and documentation
• Troubleshoot production database issues and communicate root cause and resolution to stakeholders
• Manage backup and recovery models; monitor jobs, health checks, and operational status
• Monitor database growth and provide forecasting to support capacity planning
• Enforce database conventions and security standards across the environment