Remote Azure SQL DBA - HA/DR & Performance Expert

SHI International

Northern (KY)

Hybrid

USD 110,000 - 140,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

SHI International Corp. is seeking an experienced Azure Cloud SQL Database Administrator to oversee day-to-day operations of production SQL environments in Microsoft Azure, including Azure SQL Managed Instances and SQL Server on Azure IaaS.

You will partner with customers and engineering teams to ensure secure, available, and high-performance databases. The role emphasizes disaster recovery, data synchronization, and incident management in a remote managed services setting.

Qualifications

Hands-on experience administering production SQL workloads in Azure.
Experience with Azure SQL Managed Instances and SQL Server on Azure IaaS.
Experience with Azure Data Factory, Elastic Jobs, Azure Analytics Services, SSRS/SSAS/SSIS and CDC.
Strong documentation and change control discipline.

Responsibilities

Administer, monitor, maintain, optimize, patch, and troubleshoot Azure SQL Managed Instances, SQL Server on Azure IaaS, and associated SQL workloads.
Monitor and troubleshoot database health, performance, connectivity, availability, replication, synchronization, storage growth, blocking, deadlocks, and transaction throughput.
Implement and maintain indexing, statistics, query tuning, and capacity management for high-volume transactional databases.
Administer and troubleshoot Azure Data Factory pipelines and integrations that interact with SQL platforms.
Maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot Azure SQL Elastic Jobs.
Support Azure data platform technologies, including analytics services, SSRS, SSAS, SSIS, and CDC.
Configure, test, monitor, and troubleshoot Azure SQL failover groups and replication for HA/DR.