Sr. SQL Database Administrator
Smart IMS•Little Rock, AR
•Onsite
About The Position
As a Sr. SQL Database Administrator, you will manage, optimize, secure, and support enterprise SQL Server environments, ensuring high availability, performance, reliability, and disaster recovery readiness. The role also includes Windows Server administration and cloud infrastructure support. This is a 7–8 month contract role based onsite in Little Rock, Arkansas. The stated hourly range is $40.00 to $75.00, depending on skills, experience, location, and industry.
Requirements
- 4+ years of SQL Server 2022 (or later) database administration experience.
- Strong experience with SQL Server tools, including Profiler, Extended Events, DMVs, Configuration Manager, and SQL Server Agent.
- Expertise in performance tuning, index optimization, and T-SQL development.
- Experience with database backup, recovery, point-in-time restore, and disaster recovery planning.
- Strong knowledge of SQL Server security, auditing, user access management, and encryption.
- Experience implementing high-availability solutions, including Always On Availability Groups and failover clustering.
- Experience supporting large-scale transactional systems and Very Large Databases (VLDBs).
- Knowledge of AWS environments, cloud storage management, and EC2 instances.
- 3+ years of Windows Server Administration experience, including PowerShell and Windows Failover Clustering.
- Experience administering application servers, web servers, file servers, endpoint protection, and .NET Framework components.
Responsibilities
- Install, configure, upgrade, and patch SQL Server 2022 environments.
- Perform database maintenance, monitoring, and health checks.
- Manage SQL Server security, auditing, authentication, and encryption.
- Optimize database performance through tuning, indexing, and query analysis.
- Administer backup, recovery, and disaster recovery processes.
- Implement and support SQL Server high-availability solutions, including Always On.
- Monitor and manage storage utilization, capacity planning, and database growth.
- Troubleshoot database, application, and infrastructure performance issues.
- Administer Windows Servers, failover clusters, and cloud-hosted server environments.
- Develop and maintain operational documentation, standards, and procedures.
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Career Level
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