Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 ERP & SQL Server Administrator

MDC Precision, LLC•Pflugerville, TX

16d•$115,000 - $150,000

About The Position

MDC Precision is seeking a hands-on administrator to own the day-to-day stability, security, availability, and technical support of its Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 environment. The role covers the AX application and Application Object Server (AOS), Microsoft SQL Server database, Citrix-published application environment, integrations, reporting, user access, and business operations. The administrator will troubleshoot production issues, manage environments and security, coordinate releases, protect data integrity, and work closely with business users, developers, infrastructure teams, and external vendors. The role also covers security controls, technical documentation, disaster-recovery readiness, and contributions to future ERP modernization planning. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Information Systems, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
5 or more years of hands-on technical experience supporting Microsoft Dynamics AX, including substantial production support with Dynamics AX 2009 specifically.
Demonstrated experience administering AX 2009 environments, including AOS, client configuration, user administration, security, batch processing, monitoring, troubleshooting, and environment management.
3 or more years of practical Microsoft SQL Server experience supporting production applications or ERP databases.
Strong SQL skills, including complex SELECT queries, joins, views, stored procedures, SQL Agent jobs, data validation queries, and performance investigations.
Experience with SQL Server backup, restore, recovery, database maintenance, database security, monitoring, and production incident response.
Experience troubleshooting AX application and SQL performance issues, including long-running queries, blocking, locking, deadlocks, indexing, and resource constraints.
Experience supporting ERP interfaces, file-based integrations, scheduled jobs, data imports and exports, SFTP workflows, and third-party systems.
Working knowledge of Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS, service accounts, NTFS permissions, and enterprise application access management.
Experience supporting Citrix Workspace, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, or another published-application or virtual-desktop platform.
Strong understanding of change management, testing, release management, incident management, and production support disciplines.
Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer visa sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

Experience with AX 2009 modules such as General Ledger, Accounts Payable/Receivable, Cash and Bank Management, Fixed Assets, Inventory, Purchasing, Sales Order Processing, Production, Warehouse Management, or Master Planning.
Experience supporting custom AX 2009 integrations, EDI, payment processing, banking files, credit-card gateways, shipping systems, or warehouse systems.
Experience with SSRS, Management Reporter, Excel reporting, Power BI data extraction, or custom reporting.
Experience with SSIS, SQL Server Agent, linked servers, ETL processes, XML/CSV/JSON, REST APIs, SOAP services, or SFTP automation.
Experience in a regulated, audit-sensitive, manufacturing, distribution, retail, healthcare, financial, or multi-entity environment.
Familiarity with ITIL practices, SOC controls, SOX controls, PCI DSS, access recertification, and audit evidence collection.
Experience participating in a Dynamics AX-to-Dynamics 365 Finance, Business Central, or alternate ERP evaluation or migration project.
Microsoft, SQL Server, Azure, Citrix, ITIL, security, or ERP-related certifications.

Responsibilities

Administer and support Dynamics AX 2009 production, test, development, and disaster recovery environments.
Manage AX technical administration, including AOS services, configuration, client connectivity, environment health, service accounts, and related Windows services.
Monitor and troubleshoot AX performance, user sessions, batch jobs, alerts, workflow processes, integrations, application errors, and availability issues.
Investigate AX and SQL performance using AX tracing, long-running-query analysis, SQL Server monitoring, logs, and event data; coordinate root-cause fixes with developers and infrastructure teams.
Administer AX users, groups, roles, permissions, segregation-of-duties controls, service accounts, and periodic access reviews.
Support AX client access through Citrix Workspace, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, or comparable published-application technology.
Administer and support the SQL Server environment hosting AX databases, including health checks, job monitoring, backup verification, restore testing, capacity planning, index and statistics maintenance, SQL Agent jobs, permissions, and performance troubleshooting.
Develop and maintain SQL queries, stored procedures, scripts, views, and controlled data extracts for investigation, reporting, reconciliation, and integration support.
Follow data-integrity practices, avoiding unapproved direct SQL changes to AX transactional data and using approved processes or vendor-supported methods with documented change approval and rollback plans.
Support AX data imports, exports, migration activities, reconciliation, master-data validation, and issue remediation.
Support integrations between AX 2009 and third-party systems, including payment platforms, EDI, SFTP, warehouse systems, reporting tools, custom applications, APIs, and scheduled processes.
Troubleshoot AX customizations, X++ code issues, MorphX objects, labels, configurations, and deployment packages with developers or external AX partners.
Coordinate code promotion and deployments across development, test, UAT, and production using release-management, testing, approval, rollback, and documentation practices.
Manage environment refreshes, database restores, test-data handling, configuration changes, and release validation.
Maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, database dependencies, integration inventories, service accounts, support runbooks, recovery procedures, and change records.
Coordinate patching, vulnerability remediation, endpoint protection compatibility, backup operations, disaster recovery exercises, and recovery validation with infrastructure and cybersecurity teams.