Senior Database Engineer

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🇺🇸 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 by identifying performance, availability, and security risks before incidents • 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 analyses and post-incident reviews, converting findings into automation or process improvements • Design and implement scalable database structures, 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 directly with client technical teams and executive stakeholders to translate technical findings into business recommendations • Serve as Primary DBA for one or more clients and lead service delivery within Datavail’s multi-tiered managed-services model

🎯 Requirements

• Senior-level SQL Server specialist / SQL Server DBA experience • Strong T-SQL query optimization, including execution plans, parameter sniffing, statistics/cardinality issues, and Query Store-based tuning • Experience rewriting and refactoring stored procedures and T-SQL code for performance • Experience designing and maintaining clustered, nonclustered, covering, and columnstore indexes • Root-cause performance diagnosis using wait-stats analysis and CPU/memory/I-O bottleneck isolation • Experience resolving tempdb contention, blocking, and deadlocks • Hands-on optimization of Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and AWS RDS for SQL Server • Experience with Azure and AWS cloud database architecture, migration, and cost optimization across IaaS and PaaS • Experience with performance baselining and proactive monitoring • Experience leading architecture design, disaster recovery planning, and capacity forecasting • Experience with backup strategy, HA/DR configuration, database tuning, and platform roadmap planning • Experience defining and tracking database availability and performance SLOs • Experience with root-cause analysis and post-incident reviews • Experience designing scalable database structures, partitioning strategies, and audit specifications • Experience developing deployment/rollback scripts and coordinating version updates • Python and PowerShell automation experience • Experience with SSIS packages, SSAS cubes, stored procedures for reporting, and Power BI integrations • Ability to collaborate with client technical teams and executive stakeholders • Ability to travel up to 20% domestically in the US

🏖️ Benefits

• Full medical benefits • Remote work arrangement • Up to 20% domestic US travel for client onsite visits