Senior SQL Server DBA: Always On & NDB Expert

Sira Consulting, an Inc 5000 company; Cary (NC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Sira Consulting, an Inc 5000 company, seeks an experienced SQL Server DBA to manage and support an enterprise Microsoft SQL Server environment. The resource will serve as the SME for Nutanix Database Services (NDB) and handle high availability, disaster recovery, upgrades, backups, and production support.

Responsibilities include administration, monitoring, performance tuning, capacity planning, and on-call L3 support, collaborating with infrastructure, application, security, and DR teams to

Qualifications

• Experience administering Microsoft SQL Server in enterprise environments.
• Expertise in SQL Server Always On Availability Groups and related high availability features.

Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, maintain, troubleshoot, and support SQL Server databases across production, test, and DR environments.
• Install, configure, patch, upgrade, migrate, and deploy SQL Server databases and related components.
• Serve as SME for Nutanix Database Services (NDB) and support SQL workloads on Nutanix platforms.
• Manage Always On Availability Groups, Failover Clustering, Database Mirroring, and Log Shipping.
• Perform database performance tuning, capacity planning, monitoring, RCA, and issue resolution.
• Design, implement, test, and maintain HA, backup/recovery, BC/DR solutions.
• Administer Dell EMC Avamar and Data Domain backups for SQL Server environments.
• Participate in on-call rotation and provide L3 support for critical incidents.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and compliance artifacts.
• Collaborate with infra, app, security, storage, and DR teams for reliable DB ops.

Skills

ITAR / Export Control eligible (U.S.  

Job description

Sira Consulting, an Inc 5000 company, seeks an experienced SQL Server DBA to manage and support an enterprise Microsoft SQL Server environment. The resource will serve as the SME for Nutanix Database Services (NDB) and handle high availability, disaster recovery, upgrades, backups, and production support.

Responsibilities include administration, monitoring, performance tuning, capacity planning, and on-call L3 support, collaborating with infrastructure, application, security, and DR teams to