Senior SQL DBA – FinTech, High Availability

Hirewell; Schaumburg (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Hirewell is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to join a high-availability financial trading platform. The role is hands-on, covering both database infrastructure and application-level administration.

The ideal candidate brings deep MS SQL Server expertise and strong performance-tuning skills to maintain reliability and drive best practices across teams. Responsibilities include backups, health monitoring, incident resolution, security controls, and disaster recovery planning.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of hands-on production database administration experience.
• Deep expertise with Microsoft SQL Server architecture and internals.
• Experience with Always On Availability Groups and SQL Server clustering.
• Advanced T-SQL skills.
• Experience designing backup and disaster recovery strategies.
• Familiarity with ETL processes and data movement.
• Experience with Azure SQL or other cloud platforms is a plus.
• Bachelor's degree in CS/IT preferred; equivalent experience considered.
• Microsoft SQL certifications such as DP-300 are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage database backups and regularly perform/test restores to ensure recoverability.
• Monitor database health, events, deadlocks, blocking, and other performance issues.
• Investigate and resolve database-related incidents and production issues.
• Monitor SQL Server Agent jobs and troubleshoot failures.
• Optimize tables, indexes, queries, and overall database performance.
• Leverage SQL Server features such as partitioning to improve data management and system performance.
• Implement encryption-at-rest and other database security controls supporting compliance initiatives.
• Establish database change-management procedures for engineering teams.
• Develop and enforce database and stored procedure naming standards.
• Create and maintain runbooks for database incidents and operational procedures.
• Participate in production incident response and provide support during critical events.
• Partner with engineering and technology teams on database architecture, reliability, and future initiatives.
• Support future BI and data-related projects.

Skills

SQL Server

Always On AG

T-SQL

Performance tuning

Backups & DR

Cloud/Azure SQL

DB architecture

Security controls

Clustering

DP-300

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT

Job description

Hirewell is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to join a high-availability financial trading platform. The role is hands-on, covering both database infrastructure and application-level administration.

The ideal candidate brings deep MS SQL Server expertise and strong performance-tuning skills to maintain reliability and drive best practices across teams. Responsibilities include backups, health monitoring, incident resolution, security controls, and disaster recovery planning.