Senior Database Administrator

• Administer, monitor, tune, patch, upgrade, and troubleshoot SQL Server 2019 and newer environments.

• Own database integrity, availability, backup, restore, and disaster recovery procedures, including recurring recovery testing.

• Implement and support high-availability solutions such as Always On Availability Groups and appropriate failover architectures.

• Analyze execution plans, indexes, statistics, waits, memory, tempdb, storage, blocking, deadlocks, and concurrency issues.

• Create database maintenance standards for consistency checks, backups, index/statistics care, jobs, retention, and capacity.

• Administer security using least privilege, role-based access, encryption, auditing, service-account governance, and access reviews.

• Partner with developers and data engineers on schema design, stored procedures, query performance, releases, and rollback planning.

• Automate operational tasks using T-SQL, PowerShell, SQLCMD, SQL Agent, source control, and approved monitoring platforms.

• Lead database incident response, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and stakeholder communication.

• Provide technical leadership for SQL Server migrations, consolidations, upgrades, Azure SQL adoption, and hybrid modernization.

• Support Microsoft BI and integration workloads where SQL Server is a source or platform, including SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, and Power BI connectivity.

• Maintain architecture diagrams, configuration baselines, runbooks, escalation procedures, and support documentation.