Remote SQL DBA II — High-Availability & Cloud DB Ops

Versant; Town of Florida (NY); Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Versant is seeking a SQL Database Administrator II to maintain SQL Server environments and support MySQL/PostgreSQL. You will partner with multiple tech teams to ensure reliability, security, and robust disaster recovery across cloud and on‑prem environments.

The role is remote based in Florida with occasional in-person collaboration, contributing to high‑availability data platforms across Versant’s media portfolio. Strong automation and observability skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on SQL Server transactional database administration experience.
• Strong SQL Server configuration, security, maintenance, backups, and restores.
• Experience with AWS services, especially RDS, Secrets Manager, S3, and CloudWatch.
• Advanced SQL Server performance analysis, including execution plans and indexing.
• Knowledge of MySQL and PostgreSQL administration in production.
• Proficiency with T-SQL and PowerShell for automation.

Responsibilities

• Own the health and reliability of SQL Server environments across Production, Staging, and Development.
• Support and administer MySQL and PostgreSQL as needed across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Monitor and optimize database performance using execution plans, Query Store, wait statistics, and observability tools.
• Strengthen database security and resilience including backup, restore, and disaster-recovery strategies.
• Collaborate with engineering to improve CI/CD workflows, data migrations, and post-deployment validation.
• Automate routine operations with PowerShell and IaC, enhancing monitoring and incident response.

Skills

SQL Server admin

Performance tuning

Backup & restore

PowerShell

T-SQL

AWS RDS

Disaster recovery

CI/CD practices

Observability tooling

Troubleshooting

Education

Associate degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Secrets Manager

S3

CloudWatch

Datadog

Prometheus

GitHub Actions

Job description

Versant is seeking a SQL Database Administrator II to maintain SQL Server environments and support MySQL/PostgreSQL. You will partner with multiple tech teams to ensure reliability, security, and robust disaster recovery across cloud and on‑prem environments.

The role is remote based in Florida with occasional in-person collaboration, contributing to high‑availability data platforms across Versant’s media portfolio. Strong automation and observability skills are essential.