Senior SQL Server DBA — Remote, HA/DR & Cloud Focus

Cognizant; Augusta (ME); On-site; USD 80,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) Plan and contributions

Paid holidays plus PTO

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced SQL Server Database Administrator to join our enterprise infrastructure. You will manage, optimize, and modernize mission-critical Microsoft SQL Server environments, including HA/DR and cloud-based services.

Responsibilities include supporting large production environments, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and driving database modernization initiatives to ensure availability and performance.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of SQL Server DBA experience.
• HA/DR technologies: Always On, Clustering, Replication, Mirroring, Log Shipping.
• Performance tuning and query optimization.
• Backup and recovery administration.
• T-SQL development and troubleshooting.
• Production support experience.
• Windows Server administration.

Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, patch, upgrade, and optimize SQL Server environments across production, development, test, and DR platforms.
• Monitor health, performance, availability, and capacity; tune queries, procedures, indexes, and plans.
• Troubleshoot complex DB issues including bottlenecks, blocking, deadlocks, outages.
• Design and support HA/DR solutions: Always On, Clustering, Replication, Mirroring, Log Shipping.
• Develop and maintain backup, recovery, and business continuity strategies.
• Support dev teams by optimizing T-SQL code, procedures, functions, views, triggers.

Skills

SQL Server Administration

Performance Tuning

Production Support

Windows Server Administration

Tools

Azure SQL Database

Azure Managed Instance

SQL Server on Azure VMs

Idera

Redgate

SQL Sentry

SolarWinds DPA

Jenkins

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced SQL Server Database Administrator to join our enterprise infrastructure. You will manage, optimize, and modernize mission-critical Microsoft SQL Server environments, including HA/DR and cloud-based services.

Responsibilities include supporting large production environments, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and driving database modernization initiatives to ensure availability and performance.