Senior DBA: Design, Optimize & Automate Databases

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE); Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to design, optimize, and support high‑availability SQL Server environments. You will lead performance tuning, backup/recovery, encryption, and cross‑platform data workflows, while automating routine tasks and maintaining strict SLAs.

The role requires 9+ years in DBMS with Always On DAG expertise, on-call rotation, and strong collaboration with business units across complex environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems or equivalent.
• 9+ years of experience with various database management systems in design, testing, implementation, maintenance and administration.
• Must participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation.
• Expert SQL Server knowledge (2012–2022) and SQL performance tuning.
• Expert knowledge of Always On Availability Groups and DAG.
• Extensive knowledge of automation
• Strong database design and analysis skills.
• Expert knowledge of backup and recovery operations for DBMS
• Knowledge of encryption (Always Encrypted, TLS, etc.)
• Familiarity with mainframe data workflows and cross-platform data movement

Responsibilities

• Designs and architect’s database solutions.
• Optimizes database access and allocates resources for performance and cost.
• Performs data analysis to provide timely, accurate information and predict future requirements.
• Ensure SLAs for internal and external clients.
• Provide strategic engineering solutions to drive improvements.
• Own projects through implementation including tool upgrades.
• Liaise between DBA team and business units.
• Monitor performance, availability, and capacity.
• Maintain data policies, dictionaries, and warehousing needs.
• Configure and tune database systems and perform backups/recovery.
• Troubleshoot queues, messages, and BizTalk/Service Broker integrations.
• Develop db documentation and run routine maintenance.
• Review storage utilization and trend analyses for incidents.
• Interface with user departments remotely and on-site.

Skills

SQL Server

Performance tuning

Always On DAG

Data backup and recovery

Database design

Automation scripting

Security: encryption/TDE

OS/storage/network knowledge

On-call 24x7

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or Information Systems

Tools

BizTalk SQL Server

Service Broker

Azure SQL / Cloud SQL

DB2 migration

Windows Server

Job description

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to design, optimize, and support high‑availability SQL Server environments. You will lead performance tuning, backup/recovery, encryption, and cross‑platform data workflows, while automating routine tasks and maintaining strict SLAs.

The role requires 9+ years in DBMS with Always On DAG expertise, on-call rotation, and strong collaboration with business units across complex environments.