Senior Database Administrator

🕒 July 30

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📀 Database Administrator

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Embrace Software Inc

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2021

💼 Consulting

💸 Finance

Consulting • Software • Finance

Embrace Software Inc. is a business investment company that specializes in acquiring and building world-class software businesses across various industrial sectors. With a focus on mission-critical software, Embrace aims to add value to its portfolio of companies, which range from small and medium-sized businesses to Fortune 500 firms. The company supports its acquired businesses by providing resources and operational expertise to foster growth and enhance customer satisfaction.

📋 Description

• Backup & Recovery: Design and implement robust backup strategies that ensure both full and transactional log backups run on schedule. • High-Severity Triage: Act as the primary responder for Sev-1 and Sev-2 database-related incidents. • Performance & Index Tuning: Continuously monitor wait statistics, index fragmentation, and resource-intensive queries. • Capacity & Storage Planning: Track database file growth trends and forecast storage requirements at least 90 days in advance. • Schema & Data Change Management: Review and validate SQL scripts submitted by development teams. • Environment Provisioning: Develop and maintain repeatable scripts and runbooks for provisioning new environments or cloning databases. • Security & Compliance: Implement and enforce best practices for database security, including encryption at rest and in transit, least-privilege access controls, and comprehensive auditing. • Process Improvement: Document and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs). Identify opportunities to automate routine database tasks—such as backups, integrity checks, and deployments.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience administering SQL Server (2016–2022) in 24×7 production environments, including on-premise and cloud-hosted setups. • Strong knowledge of backup/restore strategies, index maintenance, performance tuning, and HA/DR solutions like Availability Groups, log shipping, or mirroring. • Comfortable supporting customer-managed on-premise servers, VPN/ExpressRoute-integrated cloud VMs, and internal lab environments. • Proficient in T-SQL and scripting (PowerShell or Bash) for automation and operational efficiency. • Experience with large datasets, including table partitioning and archival strategies for 100M+ row tables. • Skilled at troubleshooting blocking, deadlocks, timeouts, and other database performance issues in collaboration with dev and support teams. • Strong written and verbal communication; able to overlap at least 4 hours with US Eastern Time. • Nice to Have: Exposure to healthcare/EHR systems and data privacy regulations (HIPAA, HITECH). Microsoft SQL Server certification.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary, structured based on the UK working hours • Comprehensive training and mentorship programs for skill and knowledge enhancement • Opportunities for career advancement and professional development

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