Senior SQL Server DBA – HA/DR & AOAG Specialist (Austin)

Quantum Technologies LLC; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 79,000 - 106,000; Full time

Job summary

Quantum Technologies LLC in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to manage and optimize SQL Server environments across production and non-production systems, ensuring high availability, performance, and security.

You will design HA/DR strategies, implement AOAG/WSFC, develop SSIS/ETL processes, automate tasks with PowerShell and T-SQL, and collaborate with development teams to support releases and incident response.

Qualifications

• Strong Microsoft SQL Server administration and engineering
• Install, configure, maintain, patch, and upgrade SQL Server environments across production and non-production systems
• Build and configure new SQL Server environments and provide ongoing administration and support for existing databases
• Strong stored procedures, views, triggers and query troubleshooting
• Performance tuning, indexing and execution-plan analysis
• Security, logins, roles/permissions and database access management
• Develop, support, and troubleshoot SSIS and ETL processes
• Ongoing maintenance of existing databases: monitoring, health checks, index and statistics maintenance, integrity checks, SQL Server Agent jobs, and capacity/storage management
• Troubleshooting and resolving database incidents, outages, blocking/deadlocks, failed jobs and performance issues, including root-cause analysis
• Supporting SQL Server on Windows Server across internal networks, including service accounts, Windows/Active Directory authentication, ports and firewall rules
• Working with network and infrastructure teams to resolve firewall and connectivity issues between users, application servers and database servers
• Develop and maintain backup and recovery strategies using full, differential, and transaction log backups
• Design, implement, administer, support, and troubleshoot SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HA/DR) solutions
• Implement and support SQL Server Always On Availability Groups (AOAG) and Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC)
• Support multi-node and multi-datacenter Availability Group architectures
• Understand business requirements for RPO/RTO and ensure recovery strategies meet them
• Scripting with PowerShell, T-SQL and batch to automate and maintain databases and applications
• Supporting application releases, including database changes, deployment and post-release checks
• Documenting database designs, configurations, support procedures and runbooks
• Working closely with application, development and testing teams on defect triage and fixes

Responsibilities

• 8+ years overall, with strong hands-on SQL Server administration and production support experience

Skills

SQL Server administration

SQL performance tuning

SSIS/ETL

Backup and recovery

SQL Server security

T-SQL scripting

PowerShell scripting

Troubleshooting database incidents

High Availability (AOAG/WSFC)

Job description

Quantum Technologies LLC in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to manage and optimize SQL Server environments across production and non-production systems, ensuring high availability, performance, and security.

You will design HA/DR strategies, implement AOAG/WSFC, develop SSIS/ETL processes, automate tasks with PowerShell and T-SQL, and collaborate with development teams to support releases and incident response.