Senior MS SQL DBA — Cloud & Azure Specialist (Remote)

Ampcus Inc; Mechanicsville (VA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Ampcus Inc. is seeking a Tolling Senior MS SQL DBA to join the Engineering and Operations team in Mechanicsville, VA (Remote).

The role focuses on administering SQL Server and cloud databases, ensuring availability, performance, security, and reliability, with additional help desk and application support responsibilities. Responsibilities include monitoring uptime, troubleshooting issues, tuning queries, and implementing high-availability configurations.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience with Microsoft SQL Server databases.

Responsibilities

• Monitor databases to maintain uptime and availability.
• Troubleshoot connectivity, access, security and other operational issues.
• Tune long-running SQL queries and optimize database performance.
• Review and refine database tasks and processes to align with team priorities.
• Work with Azure Cloud and other cloud database technologies.
• Provide help desk and application support as part of team rotation.
• Collaborate with engineering and operations to accomplish project goals.

Skills

MS SQL Server

Transact-SQL

Azure Cloud

Troubleshooting

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

SSIS

SSAS

SSRS

Azure

Snowflake

Databricks

Job description

Ampcus Inc. is seeking a Tolling Senior MS SQL DBA to join the Engineering and Operations team in Mechanicsville, VA (Remote).

The role focuses on administering SQL Server and cloud databases, ensuring availability, performance, security, and reliability, with additional help desk and application support responsibilities. Responsibilities include monitoring uptime, troubleshooting issues, tuning queries, and implementing high-availability configurations.