Remote Senior SQL Server Production DBA for Healthcare SaaS

Embrace Software Inc; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Structured UK-hour based compensation

Training and mentorship programs

Career advancement opportunities

Job summary

Embrace Software Inc. seeking a Senior SQL Server Production DBA to own the health, performance, and lifecycle of EPOWERdoc databases across production, staging, and development environments.

This remote role involves managing customer-hosted, hybrid, and cloud instances, standardizing backups, tuning performance, and ensuring HIPAA-compliant security. You will collaborate with architects, developers, Support, and IT teams to provision environments, migrate toward a multi-tenant SaaS, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of SQL Server administration in 24x7 production environments, including on-premise and cloud-hosted setups.
• Strong knowledge of backup/restore strategies, index maintenance, performance tuning, and HA/DR solutions.
• Comfortable supporting customer-managed on-premise servers, VPN/ExpressRoute-integrated cloud VMs, and internal lab environments.
• Proficient in T-SQL and scripting (PowerShell or Bash) for automation and operational efficiency.
• Experience with large datasets, including table partitioning and archival strategies for 100M+ row tables.
• Skilled at troubleshooting blocking, deadlocks, timeouts, and other database performance issues in collaboration with dev and support teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication; able to overlap at least 4 hours with US Eastern Time.
• Nice to Have: Exposure to healthcare/EHR systems and data privacy regulations (HIPAA, HITECH).
• Microsoft SQL Server certification.

Responsibilities

• Backup & Recovery: Design and implement robust backup strategies that ensure both full and transactional log backups run on schedule.
• High-Severity Triage: Act as the primary responder for Sev-1 and Sev-2 database-related incidents. Drive timely root cause analysis and implement permanent solutions to maintain system stability and minimize future risks.
• Performance & Index Tuning: Continuously monitor wait statistics, index fragmentation, and resource-intensive queries. Provide clear and actionable tuning recommendations that improve query performance and reduce latency for high-impact customers.
• Capacity & Storage Planning: Track database file growth trends and forecast storage requirements at least 90 days in advance.
• Schema & Data Change Management: Review and validate SQL scripts submitted by development teams. Safely apply changes across customer environments while maintaining detailed version control and change history.
• Environment Provisioning: Develop and maintain repeatable scripts and runbooks for provisioning new environments or cloning databases.
• Security & Compliance: Implement and enforce best practices for database security, including encryption at rest and in transit, least-privilege access controls, and comprehensive auditing.
• Process Improvement: Document and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs). Identify opportunities to automate routine database tasks using scripting and lightweight DevOps pipelines.

Skills

SQL Server

T-SQL

PowerShell

Bash

Backup/Restore

Performance Tuning

HA/DR

Scripting

Job description

Embrace Software Inc. seeking a Senior SQL Server Production DBA to own the health, performance, and lifecycle of EPOWERdoc databases across production, staging, and development environments.

This remote role involves managing customer-hosted, hybrid, and cloud instances, standardizing backups, tuning performance, and ensuring HIPAA-compliant security. You will collaborate with architects, developers, Support, and IT teams to provision environments, migrate toward a multi-tenant SaaS, and