Sr SQL Administrator

The Senior SQL Administrator is responsible for the administration, performance, availability, security, recoverability, and integrity of enterprise database platforms across on-premises and cloud-based environments. This position designs, implements, monitors, optimizes, and supports highly available database platforms used by businesses, manufacturing, quality, reporting, integration, and infrastructure systems. Serving as a database subject matter expert, the Sr. SQL Database Administrator partners with Infrastructure, Applications, Security, Quality, and business teams to maintain stable, secure, scalable, and compliant database services across on-premises and cloud environments. Specific Duties and Responsibilities Database Operations, Availability & Performance: • Manage the day-to-day operations of enterprise database platforms, including configuration, maintenance, patching, backups, restores, performance, security, and capacity. • Administer, maintain, and optimize Microsoft SQL Server environments across on-premises, virtualized, and cloud-hosted platforms. • Monitor database health, performance, job execution, storage utilization, blocking, deadlocks, replication, availability groups, and backup success. • Perform database performance tuning, including query analysis, indexing strategy, execution plan review, statistics maintenance, wait analysis, and resource optimization. • Implement and support high availability and disaster recovery solutions, including SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, clustering, log shipping, replication, backups, and restore testing. • Plan and execute database maintenance activities, including index maintenance, integrity checks, patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management. • Support database capacity planning, storage forecasting, performance baselining, and scalability planning for business-critical systems. • Provide after hours on-call support on a rotation schedule with other staff members. Security, Access Control