Pdssoft

SQL Server DBA/Admin

Location: -Wichita KS

Duration: Long Term

Job Description:

Microsoft SQL Server (Required) Administration & Operations

• SQL Server 2016 through SQL Server 2025 administration
• Backup, restore, recovery, and database refreshes between environments
• Security administration (logins, users, roles, AD group integration)
• Database access troubleshooting and permissions management
• SQL Agent job troubleshooting and maintenance
• Support ticket processing and incident response

Performance & Availability SQL performance tuning (query tuning, index optimization, execution plan analysis)

• Windows Failover Clustering and SQL Server clustered instances
• Always On Availability Groups
• High availability and disaster recovery planning/testing

Maintenance & Upgrades

• SQL Server migration projects to newer versions
• Migration planning and execution
• Database consistency checks and maintenance plans
• Monitoring and alerting tools experience
• Azure & Cloud (Preferred) Basic Microsoft Azure administration experience
• Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance familiarity
• Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Instance familiarity
• Azure Storage Accounts, Blob Storage, and backup/recovery concepts
• Azure Virtual Machines hosting SQL Server workloads
• Azure networking awareness (Private Endpoints, VNets, Firewalls)
• Oracle (Preferred / Backup Support as needed) Administration
• Oracle 9i Data Guard, 10g, 11g on AIX
• Oracle 12c/19c multitenant architecture (CDB/PDB) on RHEL
• User account management, password resets, account unlocks
• Backup/recovery using RMAN