Senior SQL Database Engineer — On-Prem & Cloud

Penumbrainc; Alameda (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

401(k) with employer match

Paid holidays and vacation

Job summary

Penumbra, Inc. in Alameda, CA seeks a Senior SQL Administrator to oversee enterprise database platforms across on-premises and cloud environments. You will ensure availability, security, recoverability, and integrity while supporting governance and high-traffic workloads.

The role collaborates with Infrastructure, Applications, Security, and Quality teams to maintain scalable, compliant database services, manage on-call duties, and drive continuous improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field with 8+ years enterprise-level DB administration.
• 5+ years experience with high availability, DR, backup, restore for business-critical systems.
• Strong experience with SQL Server performance tuning, indexing, and query optimization.
• Experience administering SQL Server Always On, failover clustering, log shipping, replication.
• Experience with PowerShell, T-SQL scripting, automation, monitoring, and operational reporting.
• Working knowledge of Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS, networking, storage, virtualization, and cloud infra as relates to DB services.
• Ability to plan, organize, and document complex DB administration activities and align with policies.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day operations of enterprise DB platforms, incl. configuration, maintenance, patches, backups, and capacity.
• Administer, maintain, and optimize SQL Server environments on-premises, virtualized, and cloud-hosted.
• Monitor DB health, performance, job execution, storage, blocking, deadlocks, replication, and backups.
• Perform performance tuning: queries, indexing, execution plans, statistics, wait analysis.
• Implement HA/DR solutions: Always On AG, clustering, log shipping, replication, restores.
• Plan maintenance, upgrades, lifecycle management, capacity planning, and baselines.
• Provide after-hours on-call support on rotation.

Skills

Database administration

Performance tuning

Disaster recovery

Security & access control

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Multi-tasking

Communication with stakeholders

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT / Engineering / Data Management or related field

Tools

SQL Server

Azure SQL / SQL Server Always On

PowerShell

T-SQL scripting

SSIS/SSRS

Azure SQL Managed Instance

Job description

Penumbra, Inc. in Alameda, CA seeks a Senior SQL Administrator to oversee enterprise database platforms across on-premises and cloud environments. You will ensure availability, security, recoverability, and integrity while supporting governance and high-traffic workloads.

The role collaborates with Infrastructure, Applications, Security, and Quality teams to maintain scalable, compliant database services, manage on-call duties, and drive continuous improvements.