Senior SQL Server DBA - Cloud, High Availability & Performance

Valiant Technologies LLC; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Valiant Technologies LLC in Jersey City is seeking an experienced Senior SQL Server DBA to manage, secure, and optimize enterprise databases. You will oversee performance tuning, high availability, disaster recovery, backups, and cloud database management, including Azure SQL migrations and automation.

The role requires hands-on experience with Always On, clustering, indexing strategies, and SQL Agent automation. Collaboration with development teams to optimize procedures is essential.

Qualifications

• Senior SQL Server DBA with enterprise experience sought for data environments.
• Strong expertise in performance tuning, HA/DR, backups, and cloud DB management.
• Experience with migrations to Azure SQL and managed instances is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, install, configure, and maintain SQL Server environments.
• Upgrade, patch, and migrate SQL Server instances.
• Monitor performance and troubleshoot complex issues.
• Optimize queries, indexes, and execution plans.
• Manage Always On AGs, Failover Clustering, and mirroring.
• Implement backup/DR strategies and conduct capacity planning.
• Secure databases, manage permissions, auditing, and roles.
• Automate DBA tasks with PowerShell, T-SQL, and SQL Agent jobs.
• Collaborate with developers to optimize procedures and objects.
• Support on-prem to Azure SQL migrations and cloud management.

Skills

SQL Server admin

Performance tuning

High availability

Disaster recovery

Backup strategies

Cloud databases

PowerShell

T-SQL

SQL Agent

Azure SQL

Indexing strategies

Always On

Tools

Azure SQL

Always On

Failover Clustering

SQL Server Agent

Job description

Valiant Technologies LLC in Jersey City is seeking an experienced Senior SQL Server DBA to manage, secure, and optimize enterprise databases. You will oversee performance tuning, high availability, disaster recovery, backups, and cloud database management, including Azure SQL migrations and automation.

The role requires hands-on experience with Always On, clustering, indexing strategies, and SQL Agent automation. Collaboration with development teams to optimize procedures is essential.