SQL Database Administrator

Sira Consulting, an Inc 5000 company; Cary (NC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Sira Consulting, an Inc 5000 company, seeks an experienced SQL Server DBA to manage and support an enterprise Microsoft SQL Server environment. The resource will serve as the SME for Nutanix Database Services (NDB) and handle high availability, disaster recovery, upgrades, backups, and production support.

Responsibilities include administration, monitoring, performance tuning, capacity planning, and on-call L3 support, collaborating with infrastructure, application, security, and DR teams to

Qualifications

• Experience administering Microsoft SQL Server in enterprise environments.
• Expertise in SQL Server Always On Availability Groups and related high availability features.

Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, maintain, troubleshoot, and support SQL Server databases across production, test, and DR environments.
• Install, configure, patch, upgrade, migrate, and deploy SQL Server databases and related components.
• Serve as SME for Nutanix Database Services (NDB) and support SQL workloads on Nutanix platforms.
• Manage Always On Availability Groups, Failover Clustering, Database Mirroring, and Log Shipping.
• Perform database performance tuning, capacity planning, monitoring, RCA, and issue resolution.
• Design, implement, test, and maintain HA, backup/recovery, BC/DR solutions.
• Administer Dell EMC Avamar and Data Domain backups for SQL Server environments.
• Participate in on-call rotation and provide L3 support for critical incidents.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and compliance artifacts.
• Collaborate with infra, app, security, storage, and DR teams for reliable DB ops.

Skills

ITAR / Export Control eligible (U.S.  

Job description

Position Summary: Seeking an experienced SQL Server DBA to manage and support enterprise Microsoft SQL Server environment. The resource will serve as the primary SME for Nutanix Database Services (NDB) and will be responsible for SQL administration, performance tuning, high availability, disaster recovery, upgrades, migrations, backup/recovery, and production support.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, maintain, troubleshoot, and support Microsoft SQL Server databases across production, test, and disaster recovery environments.
• Install, configure, patch, upgrade, migrate, and deploy SQL Server databases and related components.
• Serve as SME for Nutanix Database Services (NDB) and support SQL workloads hosted on Nutanix platforms.
• Manage SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, Failover Clustering, Database Mirroring, and Log Shipping.
• Perform database performance tuning, capacity planning, monitoring, root cause analysis, and issue resolution.
• Design, implement, test, and maintain database high availability, backup/recovery, business continuity, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Administer Dell EMC Avamar and Data Domain backup solutions for SQL Server environments.
• Participate in on-call support rotation and provide L3 support for critical production incidents and outages.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, operating procedures, runbooks, and compliance-related artifacts.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, application, security, storage, and DR teams to ensure reliable database operations.

Mandatory Skills

• ITAR / Export Control eligible (U.S. Person required)
• Microsoft SQL Server Administration
• SQL Server Always On Availability Groups