TeleSolv Consulting is seeking an experienced Senior SQL Database Administrator (Senior SQL DBA) to provide enterprise database administration and operational support for Microsoft SQL Server environments supporting mission-critical applications. The successful candidate will help ensure database availability, reliability, performance and security while working independently and collaborating with application-development and other technical teams.
- Administer Microsoft SQL Server databases supporting enterprise applications.
- Install, configure, maintain, patch and upgrade SQL Server environments.
- Monitor database health, availability, capacity and performance.
- Conduct database performance analysis and tuning.
- Develop and maintain database backup and recovery processes.
- Troubleshoot database performance and availability issues.
- Support database security and access-control requirements.
- Assist application-development teams with database design and configuration.
- Support database changes associated with application releases.
- Maintain database configurations and technical documentation.
- Support production database incident and problem resolution.
- Collaborate with .NET developers, Azure developers, DevOps engineers and other technical personnel.
- Advanced Microsoft SQL Server administration and troubleshooting.
- Enterprise production database support.
- Database performance analysis and tuning.
- Backup and recovery practices.
- Database security and access control.
- Database configuration, maintenance, patching and upgrades.
- Support for business-critical enterprise applications.
- Ability to work effectively with software-development, Azure and DevOps teams.
- Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery and database modernization is desirable.
- Bachelor's degree.
- At least 7 years of database administration experience.
- At least 5 years of Microsoft SQL Server experience in enterprise production environments.
- Strong SQL Server administration and troubleshooting experience.
- Experience supporting production databases and business-critical applications.
- Experience with database backup and recovery.
- Experience with database performance tuning.
- Ability to successfully complete the Government-required criminal-history check, fingerprinting and badging process.
