Senior SQL Server DBA — Remote, HA/DR Expert

Cognizant; Des Moines (IA); Remote; USD 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Paid holidays

Paid Time Off

401(k) plan

Disability Insurance

Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced SQL Server Database Administrator to join our enterprise infrastructure team. This remote US-based role focuses on administration, performance optimization, security, availability, and modernization of Microsoft SQL Server environments.

You will support large-scale production environments, design and maintain HA/DR solutions, and drive database modernization initiatives in a highly available enterprise ecosystem. A discretionary annual incentive may apply.

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 Microsoft SQL Server environments across production, development, test, and disaster recovery platforms.
• Monitor database health, performance, availability, and capacity while proactively tuning queries, stored procedures, indexes, statistics, and execution plans.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex database issues including bottlenecks, blocking, deadlocks, and outages.
• Design, implement, and support HA/DR solutions (Always On, Clustering, Replication, Mirroring, Log Shipping).
• Develop and maintain backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies to ensure data integrity and availability.
• Support development teams by optimizing T-SQL, procedures, functions, views, and triggers.
• Participate in architecture reviews, migrations, upgrades, and modernization efforts for scalability and performance.
• Automate routine tasks using SQL Server Agent and PowerShell.

Skills

8+ years of SQL Server DBA experience

HA/DR technologies

Performance tuning

Backup and recovery

T-SQL development

Production support

Windows Server administration

Tools

Azure SQL Database

PowerShell

SQL Server Agent

Azure Managed Instance

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced SQL Server Database Administrator to join our enterprise infrastructure team. This remote US-based role focuses on administration, performance optimization, security, availability, and modernization of Microsoft SQL Server environments.

You will support large-scale production environments, design and maintain HA/DR solutions, and drive database modernization initiatives in a highly available enterprise ecosystem. A discretionary annual incentive may apply.