Database Administrator

The Database Administrator is responsible for administering, maintaining, and supporting the company’s database environments. This role helps ensure database availability, performance, security, backup/recovery, monitoring, and documentation for on‑premises and cloud platforms (e.g., Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services). The DBA partners with application, infrastructure, and analytics teams to deliver reliable, scalable data services that support business operations and reporting.

Essential Job Functions/Tasks:

1.      Administers and supports Microsoft SQL Server databases including configuration, patching, and routine maintenance.

2.      Provisions and configures database instances (on‑prem and cloud) and maintain standard configurations, jobs, and schedules.

3.      Implements and validates backup/restore processes; perform recovery testing and support disaster recovery procedures.

4.      Monitors database health, performance, and capacity; establish baselines and tune queries and indexes using execution plans and DMVs.

5.      Assists with database upgrades, migrations, refreshes, and decommissions; coordinate maintenance windows and follow change management practices.

6.      Supports high availability components (e.g., Always On availability groups, clustering, replication) and participate in failover testing as assigned.

7.      Implements and maintain database security controls including access management, least‑privilege, encryption, auditing, and vulnerability remediation.

8.      Maintains monitoring/alerting and operational documentation; respond to incidents, troubleshoot issues, and escalate appropriately.

9.      Partners with development teams to support deployments, review schema changes, and troubleshoot application/data issues in on‑prem and cloud architectures.

10.   Automates repeatable operational tasks using scripting (PowerShell/T‑SQL) and contribute to standard runbooks and operational improvements.