Senior SQL Server DBA & Cloud Performance Engineer

Datavail; Boulder (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full medical benefits

Job summary

Datavail is seeking a Senior Database Engineer/SQL Server DBA to support mission-critical databases across multiple clients. This role emphasizes automated, cloud-enabled best practices, proactive tuning, and strong client relationships. Travel up to 20% domestically is required for on-site client visits.

Full-time with comprehensive medical benefits. The candidate will act as Primary DBA for multiple clients, champion performance baselining, and guide cloud strategy across Azure and AWS

Qualifications

• Senior SQL Server DBA with deep production experience.
• Ability to optimize T-SQL, rewrite procedures and tune performance.
• Strong knowledge of cloud databases and cross-cloud architecture.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor, proactively identifying performance, availability, and security risks.
• Advise on cloud database architecture, migration, and cost optimization (AWS/Azure).
• Lead architecture design, disaster recovery, and capacity forecasting.
• Own backup strategy, HA/DR config, tuning, and roadmap planning.
• Define and track SLOs for database availability and performance.
• Lead root-cause analysis and post-incident reviews to drive automation.
• Design scalable database structures, including partitioning and audits.
• Develop deployment/rollback scripts and coordinate updates across environments.

Skills

SQL Server

T-SQL optimization

Query plan analysis

Indexing strategy

Automation (Python/PowerShell)

Cloud-native databases

Tools

Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Managed Instance

AWS RDS for SQL Server

Job description

Datavail is seeking a Senior Database Engineer/SQL Server DBA to support mission-critical databases across multiple clients. This role emphasizes automated, cloud-enabled best practices, proactive tuning, and strong client relationships. Travel up to 20% domestically is required for on-site client visits.

Full-time with comprehensive medical benefits. The candidate will act as Primary DBA for multiple clients, champion performance baselining, and guide cloud strategy across Azure and AWS