Remote SQL Server DBA – HA/DR & Azure Automation

Cognizant; Dallas (NC); Remote; USD 80,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + PTO

401(k) plan

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced SQL Server Database Administrator (DBA) to join our enterprise infrastructure team. The role focuses on administration, performance optimization, security, availability, and modernization of mission-critical Microsoft SQL Server environments.

The candidate will support large-scale production systems, implement HA/DR solutions, and work with cloud-based database services, including Azure SQL options.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of SQL Server Database Administration experience.
• SQL Server 2012/2014/2016/2017/2019+ versions.
• HA/DR technologies: Always On, Clustering, Replication, Mirroring, Log Shipping.
• Performance Tuning & Query Optimization.
• Backup & Recovery Administration.
• T-SQL Development and Troubleshooting.
• Production Support Experience.
• Windows Server Administration.

Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, patch, upgrade, and optimize SQL Server environments across production, development, test, and DR platforms.
• Monitor database health, performance, availability, and capacity; proactively tune queries, procedures, indexes, statistics, and execution plans.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex database issues including bottlenecks, blocking, deadlocks, and outages.
• Design and support HA/DR solutions (Always On, Clustering, Replication, Mirroring, Log Shipping).
• Develop and maintain backup, recovery, business continuity, and DR strategies for data integrity and availability.
• Support application development teams by optimizing T-SQL code, procedures, functions, views, and triggers.

Skills

SQL Server DBA

HA/DR

Performance tuning

Backup & Recovery

T-SQL

Production support

Windows Server

Tools

Azure SQL Database

Azure Managed Instance

SQL Server on Azure VMs

PowerShell

Jenkins

CI/CD

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced SQL Server Database Administrator (DBA) to join our enterprise infrastructure team. The role focuses on administration, performance optimization, security, availability, and modernization of mission-critical Microsoft SQL Server environments.

The candidate will support large-scale production systems, implement HA/DR solutions, and work with cloud-based database services, including Azure SQL options.