Site Reliability Engineer (SQL) - Data Center (Level 3)

Amdocs • Atlanta, GA

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About The Position

We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Data Center Engineering team at Level 3. This role requires a technically strong and operationally mature engineer who will help design, scale, and maintain the reliability of our physical and virtual data center infrastructure. As a Level 3 SRE, you will be a technical leader responsible for ensuring system uptime, optimizing capacity and performance, and contributing to long-term infrastructure resiliency.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
• 4-7 years of experience in database administration and operations.
• Experience participating in or leading incident response and postmortem analysis processes.
• Previous exposure to hybrid environments integrating on-premise data centers with public or private cloud platforms is desirable.
• 4+ years of experience with SQL Server Database.
• 4+ Years of experience with any other RDBMS Database knowledge (oracle, PostgreSQL).
• Hands-on experience with backup, recovery, and HA solutions.
• Strong proficiency in Linux and Debian environments.
• Proficiency in scripting for database automation.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong communication skills for cross-team collaboration.

Nice To Haves

• Understanding of Oracle and MySQL databases is a plus, but not mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and support SQL Server Always On Availability Groups across on-prem and Azure environments.
• Install, configure, and maintain SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances (FCI).
• Administer Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC), quorum, and node health.
• Plan and execute failover testing, DR drills, and recovery validation.
• Perform SQL Server installation, upgrades, patching, and migrations.
• Manage backup, restore, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Monitor and tune database performance (indexing, query optimization, waits).
• Troubleshoot replication, latency, blocking, and cluster-related issues.
• Configure and manage AG listeners, networking, DNS, and storage.
• Ensure database security, auditing, and compliance.
• Automate DBA tasks using T-SQL, PowerShell, and SQL Agent.
• Support application deployments and schema changes.
• Provide 24×7 production support for mission-critical systems.
• Maintain runbooks, standards, and operational documentation.

Benefits

• Ability to grow and gain many opportunities for professional development.
• We are a dynamic, multi-cultural organization that constantly innovates and empowers our employees to grow. Our people our passionate, daring, and phenomenal teammates that stand by each other with a dedication to creating a diverse, inclusive workplace!
• We offer a wide range of stellar benefits including health, dental, vision, and life insurance as well as paid time off, sick time, and parental leave!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees