Database Analyst

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, maintain, and support Microsoft SQL Server environments.
• Support SQL Server versions including legacy and current platforms such as SQL Server 2012, 2016, 2019, 2022, and newer versions as applicable.
• Perform database backup, recovery, maintenance, and integrity checks.
• Support high availability and disaster recovery technologies, including Always On Availability Groups and related SQL Server HA/DR configurations.
• Maintain and troubleshoot SQL Server Agent jobs, maintenance jobs, alerts, operators, and job failures.
• Support SQL Server security, permissions, logins, roles, service accounts, and access requests.
• Assist with SQL Server migrations, upgrades, patching, server moves, and application database cutovers.
• Provide support for application teams, infrastructure teams, developers, and business users.
• Participate in required on-call rotation and provide after-hours support for production issues, maintenance windows, deployments, and emergencies.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of professional database administration experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft SQL Server administration in production environments.
• Experience supporting enterprise-level databases with high availability, disaster recovery, backup, restore, and performance requirements.
• Strong T-SQL troubleshooting and query tuning skills.
• Experience with SQL Server Agent jobs, database maintenance plans, backups, restores, DBCC checks, and index/statistics maintenance.
• Experience troubleshooting performance issues using execution plans, wait stats, blocking analysis, indexing strategies, and SQL Server DMVs.
• Experience with SQL Server security, permissions, roles, logins, and access management.
• Experience supporting SQL Server migrations, upgrades, patching, and server/database moves.
• Ability to participate in an on-call rotation and provide after-hours support as required.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to work independently, manage priorities, document work clearly, and follow established change management processes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SQL Server Always On Availability Groups.
• Experience with SQL Server replication.
• Experience with SQL Server Reporting Services and/or Power BI Report Server.
• Experience with Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, or other Azure data platform services.
• Experience supporting legacy applications and database platforms during modernization or migration efforts.
• Microsoft SQL Server or Azure certifications are a plus but not required.