Senior SQL DBA: Cloud Ready, High-Availability & T-SQL

Contact Government Services, LLC; Washington; On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental, Vision

Life Insurance

401k

Flexible Spending Account

Paid Time Off and Holidays

Job summary

Contact Government Services, LLC is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to manage all aspects of Microsoft SQL Server. The role includes database administration, migrations, and supporting VM infrastructure in a government-focused IT environment.

The candidate will handle backups, performance tuning, and SQL Server services, while collaborating with teams on cloud and virtualization technologies. Equal opportunity employer and comprehensive benefits offered.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years relevant experience related directly to SQL Server Database Administration.
• Ability to handle multiple assignments concurrently.
• Experience with virtualization technologies such as VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V.
• Experience and knowledge related to source/change control, bug tracking, SDLC, and integration of Relational Databases.
• Ability to appropriately handle confidential and/or sensitive materials.
• Comfort with and willingness to work in groups and individually on both large and small projects.
• -Ability to document, explain, and present any task related to decisions and processes.
• Experience implementing and maintaining data warehouses is a plus.
• Experience with AWS RDS for PostgreSQL and cloud environments (Azure/AWS) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Administer Microsoft SQL Server including Replication, Backup/Restore procedures, Capacity Planning, Reporting Services, Analysis Services, and Integration Services.
• Migrating databases from SQL Server 2012 to SQL Server 2016.
• Providing all aspects of basic systems administration support including planning, installation, and configurations of hardware and software.
• Recommending/implementing solutions for SQL performance monitoring and tuning.
• Implement, deploy, and/or support Microsoft Technologies such as Visual Studio Framework, VB.NET, ASP.NET and Web Services.
• Support visualization technologies such as VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V, creating and configuring virtual machines.
• Performing backups of web, application, and database servers per policies; daily incremental and full weekly backups.
• Performing database activities such as monitoring, space management, and extended hours support as needed.

Skills

Microsoft SQL Server

Replication

Backup/Restore

Performance tuning

VMware

Hyper-V

VB.NET

ASP.NET

Web Services

Capacity planning

Cloud platforms

Tools

SQL Server Management Studio

Visual Studio

Azure

AWS

Job description

Contact Government Services, LLC is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to manage all aspects of Microsoft SQL Server. The role includes database administration, migrations, and supporting VM infrastructure in a government-focused IT environment.

The candidate will handle backups, performance tuning, and SQL Server services, while collaborating with teams on cloud and virtualization technologies. Equal opportunity employer and comprehensive benefits offered.