Senior Microsoft Windows SQL Server DBA

📋 Description

• Architect, install, configure, and maintain Microsoft SQL Server environments, including SQL Server
• Lead application performance engineering by analyzing execution plans, identifying problematic
• Monitor database and application performance using Extended Events, DMVs, Wait Statistics, Query
• Establish performance baselines and SLA-aligned monitoring and alerting thresholds.
• Design, implement, and regularly test backup and recovery strategies, including ownership of RTO
• Architect and maintain high-availability and disaster-recovery solutions, including Always On

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of hands-on SQL Server DBA experience in large-scale, mission-critical production
• Expert-level knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server 2019 and 2025 running on Windows Server 2019 and
• Advanced T-SQL expertise, including query optimization, execution plan analysis, index design
• Deep experience with application performance tuning, including resolving ORM anti-patterns, N+1
• Proven experience architecting and supporting Always On Availability Groups, Windows Server
• Strong command of Wait Statistics, DMVs, Extended Events, and Query Store for root-cause

🎁 Benefits

• Full-time opportunity with a senior-level scope and technical ownership.
• Remote work arrangement.
• Opportunity to lead database performance engineering across mission-critical production
• Hands-on work with Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL, Windows Server, Always On, and enterprise
• Significant influence over database architecture, security, availability, capacity, and operational
• Opportunity to mentor DBA professionals and contribute to technical knowledge-sharing.