Senior Azure SQL DBA - Remote

INSPYR Solutions; Fort Worth (TX); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

INSPYR Solutions is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to lead Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and SQL Server on Azure VMs. This remote role emphasizes reliability, performance tuning, migrations, and automation across Azure-based data platforms.

The position requires 7+ years of database experience with Azure services, strong T-SQL and HA/DR skills, and proficiency in automation tools like PowerShell and Azure CLI. A bachelor's degree or equivalent experience is expected.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of database administration or engineering experience with Azure database services.
• Advanced expertise in SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines.
• Strong T-SQL, indexing, execution-plan analysis, Query Store, concurrency, and performance-tuning skills.
• Proven experience with high availability, disaster recovery, backup and restore, migrations, upgrades, and patching.
• Knowledge of Azure networking, identity, security, monitoring, and cost management.
• Proficiency with PowerShell, Azure CLI, or similar automation tools; familiarity with infrastructure as code and CI/CD.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and administer Azure SQL Database, elastic pools, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines.
• Own availability, capacity, security, patching, backup, recovery, and database lifecycle management.
• Build and test resilient solutions using failover groups, geo-replication, zone redundancy, Always On availability groups, and point-in-time recovery.
• Monitor, tune, and troubleshoot workloads using Azure Monitor, Foglight, execution plans, metrics, alerts, and diagnostic views.
• Lead incident resolution and root-cause analysis for performance, blocking, connectivity, replication, storage, and failover issues.
• Plan and execute database migrations and modernization, including assessment, testing, cutover, validation, and rollback.
• Automate administration with T-SQL, PowerShell, Azure CLI, infrastructure as code, source control, and deployment pipelines.
• Partner across technology teams to define standards, optimize cost, maintain runbooks, mentor staff, and provide escalation and on-call support.

Skills

Azure SQL

SQL Server

T-SQL

Performance tuning

HA/DR

Automation

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Azure CLI

PowerShell

Foglight

Azure DevOps

Job description

INSPYR Solutions is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to lead Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and SQL Server on Azure VMs. This remote role emphasizes reliability, performance tuning, migrations, and automation across Azure-based data platforms.

The position requires 7+ years of database experience with Azure services, strong T-SQL and HA/DR skills, and proficiency in automation tools like PowerShell and Azure CLI. A bachelor's degree or equivalent experience is expected.