Senior SQL Server DBA | Remote USA | HA/DR & Cloud

Cognizant; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 80,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays & PTO

401(k) plan

Disability insurance

Parental Leave

ESPP

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced SQL Server Database Administrator (DBA) to join our enterprise infrastructure team. The role focuses on administration, performance tuning, security, availability, and modernization of mission-critical Microsoft SQL Server environments.

This role requires deep expertise in SQL Server administration, HA/DR technologies, performance tuning, automation, and cloud-based database services.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of SQL Server DBA experience.

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 performing proactive tuning of queries, stored procedures, indexes, statistics, and execution plans.
• Troubleshoot and resolve 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 to ensure data integrity and availability.
• 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 to improve scalability and performance.
• Automate routine DBA tasks using SQL Server Agent, PowerShell, and enterprise automation tools to enhance operational efficiency.
• Implement and maintain database monitoring solutions, dashboards, operational documentation, standards, and runbooks.
• Administer and support Azure-based database platforms, including Azure SQL Database, Azure Managed Instance, SQL Server on Azure VMs, and Azure Storage services.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, application, cloud, and security teams to support incidents, audits, deployments, compliance requirements, and enterprise projects.
• Provide expert production support, participate in on-call rotations, and serve as a trusted advisor for database performance, security, availability, and operational excellence.

Skills

SQL Server DBA

HA/DR tech

Performance tuning

Backup & recovery

T-SQL development

Production support

Windows Server admin

Azure SQL/Cloud

Tools

Azure SQL Database

Azure Managed Instance

SQL Server Agent

PowerShell

Jenkins CI/CD

Sentry / SolarWinds DPA

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced SQL Server Database Administrator (DBA) to join our enterprise infrastructure team. The role focuses on administration, performance tuning, security, availability, and modernization of mission-critical Microsoft SQL Server environments.

This role requires deep expertise in SQL Server administration, HA/DR technologies, performance tuning, automation, and cloud-based database services.