Hybrid SQL Server DBA Engineer — Performance & Availability

Cognizant; Des Moines (IA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Database Engineer (SQL Server DBA) in Des Moines, IA. The role covers DB administration across development to production, including backups, monitoring, migrations, and performance tuning.

You will work with Always On, clustering, replication, and disaster recovery, while coordinating with infrastructure and application teams. Strong PowerShell and T-SQL skills are required.

Qualifications

• Strong administration experience with Microsoft SQL Server 2016/2019/2022.

Responsibilities

• Manage and support SQL Server databases across Development, Test, UAT, and Production environments.
• Perform database code, schema, and object migrations in compliance with established change management procedures.
• Execute daily operational health checks, backup verification, job monitoring, database consistency checks, and capacity reviews.
• Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and maintain SQL Server instances while minimizing business disruption.
• Manage database storage, growth, capacity planning, and lifecycle management activities.
• Lead database migrations, refreshes, cloning activities, platform upgrades, cloud migrations, and consolidation initiatives.
• Automate routine DBA tasks using PowerShell and T-SQL.
• Develop scripts, utilities, and monitoring solutions to improve operational efficiency and reliability.
• Provide 24x7 production support and RCA for incidents and service disruptions.

Skills

SQL Server administration

T-SQL development

Performance tuning

Index optimization

Query optimization

Database design

Always On Availability Groups

Clustering

Replication

Log shipping

Backup & recovery

Security & compliance

PowerShell scripting

Windows Server administration

Azure SQL Database

Azure Managed Instance

AWS RDS SQL Server

Tools

SSMS

PowerShell

Windows Server

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Database Engineer (SQL Server DBA) in Des Moines, IA. The role covers DB administration across development to production, including backups, monitoring, migrations, and performance tuning.

You will work with Always On, clustering, replication, and disaster recovery, while coordinating with infrastructure and application teams. Strong PowerShell and T-SQL skills are required.