Database Administrator

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, and maintain production and non-production SQL Server databases.
• Install, configure, patch, upgrade, and migrate databases; monitor performance, availability, storage, and system health.
• Implement backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and high availability solutions; tune performance, optimize queries, and improve indexing.
• Troubleshoot database incidents, failures, and performance issues; manage security, users, roles, and permissions.
• Configure and maintain Always On, clustering, replication, and failover; support database refresh, cloning, and environment synchronization.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and security teams; ensure compliance with policies, standards, and audit requirements.
• Maintain documentation, SOPs, and reports; participate in change and incident management and on-call support.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of Microsoft SQL Server database administration experience.
• Hands-on experience with SQL Server 2016/2019/2022, backup and recovery, and disaster recovery planning.
• Strong SQL Server performance tuning and query optimization knowledge; experience with Always On Availability Groups and clustering.
• Good understanding of Windows Server and experience with monitoring and database management tools.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, communication, and teamwork abilities.

Technical skills

• Microsoft SQL Server; SQL and T-SQL scripting; performance tuning and optimization.
• Backup and recovery; Always On; database security; clustering and replication.
• Windows Server administration; monitoring and troubleshooting tools; disaster recovery solutions.

Preferred certifications

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate and Microsoft SQL Server certifications are preferred.
• ITIL or related operational certifications are a plus.

About Infinite pl

Hiring process

• The employer may use AI tools to assist parts of application review; final hiring decisions are made by people.