Senior Production SQL DBA — Automation & High Availability

eMoney Advisor; United States; On-site; USD 139,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus program

Health insurance

Sick leave

Parental leave

Paid time off

Retirement contributions

Job summary

eMoney is seeking an Advisory Database Administrator to manage the Production SQL environment and its supporting infrastructure in a demanding, 24/7/365 setting. The role requires hands-on leadership, technical mentorship, and collaboration with development teams to ensure performance, reliability, and security.

Responsibilities include leading enterprise enhancements, overseeing maintenance, optimizing queries, implementing automation, and guiding disaster recovery planning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience preferred.
• 8+ years of relevant work experience.
• 5 years of SQL Server Administrator experience required.

Responsibilities

• Lead the DBA team initiatives that focus on enterprise level enhancements and availability of the Production SQL environment.
• Oversee the daily scheduled maintenance with support after hours and technical expertise, providing technical mentorship and cross‑training to other peers and team members.
• Apply data modeling techniques to ensure development and implementation support efforts meet integration and performance expectations.
• Lead efforts to independently analyze, solve, and correct issues in real time, providing problem resolution end‑to‑end.
• Provide expertise on automation, scripting, job scheduling, capacity management, index maintenance, and running SQL in a virtualized environment.
• Lead the installation and configuration of database software while proactively detecting and responding to any system issues.
• Monitor and optimize query performance and server health.
• Responsible for the backup and recovery of database environments with a focus on Production security, high availability, performance and capacity planning.
• Utilizes subject matter expertise to advise management on database concepts and functional capabilities.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to junior DBA team members for areas of database administration activity.

Skills

Database administration

SQL Server

Automation scripts

PowerShell

Documentation

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

8+ years of relevant work experience

5 years of SQL Server Administrator experience

Tools

SQL Always-On

Automation tools

Job description

eMoney is seeking an Advisory Database Administrator to manage the Production SQL environment and its supporting infrastructure in a demanding, 24/7/365 setting. The role requires hands-on leadership, technical mentorship, and collaboration with development teams to ensure performance, reliability, and security.

Responsibilities include leading enterprise enhancements, overseeing maintenance, optimizing queries, implementing automation, and guiding disaster recovery planning.