Site Reliability Engineer - Plano, TX

QTech • Plano, TX

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Our client, a multi-national telecommunications technology is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with hands-on SQL Server and Oracle to join their Data Center Engineering team. 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. You will be a technical leader responsible for ensuring system uptime, optimizing capacity and performance, and contributing to long-term infrastructure resiliency.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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.
• 4+ years of experience with SQL Server Database.
• Some Oracle skills and can do some patch work.

Nice To Haves

• Understanding of Oracle and MySQL databases is a plus, but not mandatory.
• Previous exposure to hybrid environments integrating on-premises data centers with public or private cloud platforms is desirable.

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level