SQL Server Database Administrator

Koch Business Solutions, LP; Wichita (KS); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Koch Ag & Energy Solutions, LLC. (KAES) seeks a SQL Server Database Administrator to support SQL Server and modern databases for KAES users. You will join a DBA team handling patching, backups, performance tuning, and high availability across on‑prem and cloud platforms.

The role is based at our corporate office in Wichita, Kansas, with responsibilities spanning design, incident response, and daily database support for development and production systems.

Qualifications

• Production experience administering Microsoft SQL Server.
• Scripting for automation of tasks and maintenance.
• Backups/restores including point-in-time restoration capabilities.
• AWS practical experience: EC2, EBS, CloudWatch.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot access and grant least privilege to databases.
• Apply security patches to dev/uat/prod DB servers.
• Review logs for performance and application issues.
• Plan database upgrades aligned with business needs.
• Add disk space to EC2 instances or create new EC2 DB servers.
• Assist end users with connectivity to databases.
• Troubleshoot performance issues and optimize queries/indexes.
• Document solutions in the knowledgebase.

Skills

SQL Server administration

Scripting

Backups and restores

AWS (EC2, CloudWatch)

US work authorization

Tools

AWS EC2

CloudWatch

EBS

Job description

Koch Ag & Energy Solutions, LLC. (KAES) is seeking a SQL Server Database Administrator to support our SQL Server and modern databases that serve a variety of KAES users. As a database administrator in KAES, you will work with a team of DBAs to administer SQL Server and other modern databases, ensuring high availability, patching, performance tuning, backup/recovery, and supporting development and production systems across on-prem and cloud platforms. We are keenly aware that the technology diversity in the marketplace and its impact in business are ever increasing. KAES IT continues to understand, synthesize, and recommend technologies that will enhance the value KAES can create for our customers. The KAES DBA is an IT Professional who will have the ability to troubleshoot and diagnose database issues. In this role, you will work with a team of DBAs to administer SQL Server and other modern databases, ensuring high availability, patching, performance tuning, backup/recovery, and supporting development and production systems across on-prem and cloud platforms.

This role is expected to be based at our corporate office in Wichita, Kansas.

Our Team

Koch Ag & Energy Solutions (KAES) is a leading innovator in value-added solutions for the agriculture, energy, and chemical markets. Our Team Our Platform Engineering team provides advanced support, design, and maintenance for technologies both on premises and in the cloud. As a Database Administrator on this team you will provide beginning to end support of our databases including implementation/architectural planning, and daily support.

This role is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship

What You Will Do

• Troubleshoot access issues, grant least privileged access to databases
• Apply security patches/updates to dev/uat/prod database servers for end users or support to test
• Review database/monitoring logs for troubleshooting performance or application issues
• Assist in planning database upgrades accommodating business requirements
• Add disk space to an Amazon EC2 instance or building a new EC2 database server
• Help an end user with a connectivity issue to a supported database
• Troubleshoot performance issues, identifying problematic queries or indexes and providing solutions for system slowdowns
• Work with your team to troubleshoot a process through multiple systems
• Documenting solutions in the knowledgebase

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Intermediate experience administering Microsoft SQL Server in production environments
• Scripting for task automation processes
• Hands-on experience with backups and restores (full/diff/log), and demonstrated ability to perform point-in-time restores.
• AWS practical experience: EC2, EBS, IAM, CloudWatch and basic networking for database hosts
• Legally authorized to work in the United States.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience with other database technologies, MongoDB, MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB
• Experience using tools/logs (SQL Server logs, Extended Events, perfmon, CloudWatch or equivalent).
• AWS technologies certifications

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

As a Koch company, Koch Ag & Energy Solutions (KAES) is a global provider of value-added solutions for the agriculture, turf and ornamental, energy and chemical markets. From agriculture to energy, KAES makes things grow better with plant nutrient and biological technologies. Our team of innovators unleash their potential while developing the technologies that feed and power the world.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify.