Senior SQL Server DBA – Remote, HA/DR Expert in Azure

Cognizant; Illinois; On-site; USD 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life

Paid time off

401(k)

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. You will manage, optimize, and secure mission-critical SQL Server environments across production, development, and DR platforms from a remote USA setting.

Responsibilities include HA/DR design, performance tuning, automation with PowerShell, and collaboration with security, cloud, and app teams to drive modernization and reliability.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of SQL Server Database Administration experience.
• SQL Server 2012/2014/2016/2017/2019+.
• HA/DR technologies (Always On, Clustering, Replication, Mirroring, Log Shipping).
• Performance Tuning & Query Optimization.
• Backup & 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 disaster recovery platforms.
• Monitor database health, performance, availability, and capacity; perform proactive tuning of queries, stored procedures, indexes, statistics, and execution plans.
• Troubleshoot complex database issues including performance bottlenecks, blocking, locking, deadlocks, and system outages.
• Design, implement, and support HA/DR solutions including Always On Availability Groups, Clustering, Replication, Mirroring, and Log Shipping.
• Develop, test, and maintain backup, recovery, business continuity, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Support application development teams by creating, optimizing, and troubleshooting T-SQL code, stored procedures, functions, views, and triggers.
• Participate in database architecture reviews, migration projects, upgrades, and modernization initiatives.
• Automate routine DBA tasks using PowerShell and enterprise automation tools to enhance operational efficiency.
• Implement and maintain database monitoring solutions, dashboards, runbooks, and standards.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, application, cloud, and security teams to support incidents, audits, deployments, and compliance.

Skills

SQL Server DBA

HA/DR technologies

Performance tuning

Backup & Recovery

T-SQL development

Production support

Windows Server administration

Tools

Azure SQL Database

Azure Managed Instance

SQL Server on Azure VMs

PowerShell

Jenkins CI/CD integrations

Idera

Redgate

SQL Sentry

SolarWinds DPA

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced SQL Server Database Administrator to join our enterprise infrastructure team. You will manage, optimize, and secure mission-critical SQL Server environments across production, development, and DR platforms from a remote USA setting.

Responsibilities include HA/DR design, performance tuning, automation with PowerShell, and collaboration with security, cloud, and app teams to drive modernization and reliability.