Senior Database Engineer

🔥 4 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Datavail

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2007

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Datavail is a comprehensive IT solutions provider specializing in analytics, application development, database administration, and cloud services. Their offerings span advanced analytics consulting, cloud migration and management, and application modernization, ensuring clients can leverage their data for competitive advantage. Datavail focuses on delivering tailored solutions to enhance data management and operational efficiency across various sectors.

📋 Description

• Serve as a trusted advisor to clients, proactively identifying performance, availability, and security risks • Advise clients on cloud database architecture, migration, and cost optimization across AWS and Azure IaaS and PaaS • Lead architecture design, disaster recovery planning, and capacity forecasting initiatives • Own the end-to-end database service lifecycle, including backup strategy, HA/DR configuration, proactive tuning, and platform roadmap planning • Define and track database availability and performance SLOs • Drive automated remediation for recurring failure patterns • Lead root-cause analysis and post-incident reviews for major issues • Translate incident findings into automation or process changes that prevent recurrence • Design and implement scalable database structures, including partitioning strategies and audit specifications • Develop and maintain deployment and rollback scripts • Coordinate version updates across environments • Build Python and PowerShell automation for backup validation, monitoring, alerting, and reporting integrations such as Power BI • Migrate and support SSIS packages and SSAS cubes • Develop stored procedures for reporting • Collaborate with client technical teams and executive stakeholders to translate technical findings into business-relevant recommendations

🎯 Requirements

• Senior-level SQL Server specialist / Senior-level SQL Server DBA experience • T-SQL query optimization, including reading and rewriting execution plans, resolving parameter sniffing, statistics/cardinality issues, and Query Store-based tuning • Rewriting and refactoring stored procedures and T-SQL code for performance • Designing and maintaining clustered, nonclustered, and covering indexes; evaluating columnstore indexes; managing fragmentation and maintenance • Root-cause performance diagnosis, including wait-stats analysis, CPU/memory/I-O bottleneck isolation, tempdb contention, and blocking/deadlock resolution • Hands-on optimization of Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and AWS RDS for SQL Server • Azure and AWS cloud database architecture, migration, and cost optimization across IaaS and PaaS • Proactive performance baselining and monitoring • Architecture design, disaster recovery planning, and capacity forecasting • Backup strategy and HA/DR configuration • Defining and tracking SLOs for database availability and performance • Root-cause analysis and post-incident reviews • Designing scalable database structures, including partitioning strategies and audit specifications • Deployment and rollback scripting; coordinating version updates across environments • Python and PowerShell automation • Backup validation, monitoring, alerting, and reporting integrations such as Power BI • SSIS and SSAS experience • Stored procedure development for reporting • Ability to collaborate directly with client technical teams and executive stakeholders • Up to 20% domestic US travel for client onsite visits

🏖️ Benefits

• Full medical benefits • Full-time employment • Up to 20% domestic (US) travel for client onsite visits

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