SQL Server Junior DBA: Performance, DR & Production Support

BEST DOCTORS INSURANCE SERVICES LLC; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 18,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

BEST DOCTORS INSURANCE SERVICES LLC in Guayaquil, Ecuador seeks a Junior Database Administrator to support Microsoft SQL Server environments and collaborate with the DBA Lead to ensure database availability, stability, and performance.

The role involves incident management, handling production and non-production requests, and contributing to disaster recovery testing and change processes with development, analytics, and infrastructure teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 2–3 years of experience with Microsoft SQL Server.
• Strong knowledge of T-SQL and performance troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Manage SQL Server tickets across development, analytics, and infrastructure teams.
• Perform database restorations in production and non-production environments.
• Analyze and optimize T-SQL queries to improve application performance.
• Identify and troubleshoot blocking, deadlocks, and performance-related issues.
• Monitor alerts, jobs, and critical events on SQL Server instances.
• Assist in validating high availability configurations (Always On, replication).

Skills

SQL Server

T-SQL

Incident management

Database performance

Communication

Teamwork

Documentation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Always On

Azure SQL

Replication

Job description

BEST DOCTORS INSURANCE SERVICES LLC in Guayaquil, Ecuador seeks a Junior Database Administrator to support Microsoft SQL Server environments and collaborate with the DBA Lead to ensure database availability, stability, and performance.

The role involves incident management, handling production and non-production requests, and contributing to disaster recovery testing and change processes with development, analytics, and infrastructure teams.