552_DBA Engineer

Required skills

Will be a plus

Languages

Experience

5+ years

Role

Senior

We are looking for a Database Administrator to own and operate our database infrastructure. We run SQL Server 2019 Enterprise Edition in a high-availability configuration, supporting a multi-tenant SaaS HR platform with a large number of customer databases and significant data volumes.

This is a hands-on role covering both day-to-day operations, automation of recurring tasks, development support, as well as continuous improvements to performance, reliability, and scalability.

Ideally you are a DBA with DevOps skills or a DevOps who has significant experience automating database operations as well.

What You Will Own

Day-to-Day Operations

• Monitor and maintain the SQL Server cluster: health checks, synchronization, failover readiness

• Handle routine DBA tasks: schema changes, index maintenance, statistics updates,

  
  troubleshooting of performance issues

• Manage SQL Server Agent jobs, maintenance plans, and backup schedules

• Maintain production as well as non-production environments

• Improve monitoring and alerting coverage where gaps exist

Performance & Capacity

• Identify and investigate performance issues

• Monitor storage growth and plan capacity proactively

• Validate buffer pool and memory configuration remains appropriate as workloads evolve

• Review and optimize replication and synchronization across cluster nodes

Multi-Tenant Architecture

• Manage a large number of tenant databases following a one-database-per-tenant pattern

• Handle tenant lifecycle at the database level: provisioning, schema migrations, isolation

• Build and maintain T-SQL automation to keep operations manageable at scale

Required Skills and Experience

• MS SQL Server DBA in high availability environments

• Expertise in MS SQL Server Enterprise Edition

• Experience with AlwaysOn Availability Groups: configuration, failover testing,

replica management

• Performance tuning skills: execution plan analysis, index design, wait statistics,

contention resolution

• Experience managing multi-tenant database architectures at scale

• Windows Server administration: disk management, clustering, service accounts

• Backup and recovery practice: full/differential/log chain, restore testing,

point-in-time recovery

• Comfortable writing T-SQL automation: maintenance scripts, monitoring queries,

deployment tooling

• Familiarity with infrastructure monitoring tools: CheckMK, PRTG, Zabbix, or similar

Nice to Have

• Experience with Nutanix or similar virtualization platforms

• Familiarity with Ansible or other configuration management tooling

• Knowledge of other database management systems, e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL

• Exposure to application-level concerns: connection pooling, query patterns, schema migration frameworks

• Experience with GitLab CICD

• Docker/Kubernetes hands-on experience