Senior Database Administrator

Agency :

Havas Creative

Job Description :

The Senior Database Administrator is a hands-on senior technical role responsible for the reliability availability security performance recoverability and lifecycle management of enterprise Microsoft SQL Server environments. The position owns operational and strategic administration of SQL Server 2019 and later across development QA staging reporting and production workloads. The successful candidate brings a minimum of seven years of database administration experience deep SQL Server troubleshooting expertise strong automation practices and the ability to lead complex production support upgrade security and recovery initiatives.

• Administer monitor tune patch upgrade and troubleshoot SQL Server 2019 and newer environments.

• Own database integrity availability backup restore and disaster recovery procedures including recurring recovery testing.

• Implement and support high-availability solutions such as Always On Availability Groups and appropriate failover architectures.

• Analyze execution plans indexes statistics waits memory tempdb storage blocking deadlocks and concurrency issues.

• Create database maintenance standards for consistency checks backups index/statistics care jobs retention and capacity.

• Administer security using least privilege role-based access encryption auditing service-account governance and access reviews.

• Partner with developers and data engineers on schema design stored procedures query performance releases and rollback planning.

• Automate operational tasks using T-SQL PowerShell SQLCMD SQL Agent source control and approved monitoring platforms.

• Lead database incident response root-cause analysis corrective actions and stakeholder communication.

• Provide technical leadership for SQL Server migrations consolidations upgrades Azure SQL adoption and hybrid modernization.

• Support Microsoft BI and integration workloads where SQL Server is a source or platform including SSIS SSRS SSAS and Power BI connectivity.

• Maintain architecture diagrams configuration baselines runbooks escalation procedures and support documentation.

Qualification:

Minimum 7 years of professional database administration experience including senior ownership of enterprise Microsoft SQL Server environments.

Advanced production experience with SQL Server 2019 or later including installation configuration patching security performance backup/recovery and troubleshooting.

Advanced T-SQL and deep understanding of SQL Server internals indexing query optimization transactions locking and concurrency.

Hands-on experience with HA/DR technologies and validated recovery procedures.

Strong Windows Server authentication storage networking service account certificate and permission fundamentals.

Experience automating DBA work with PowerShell T-SQL and source-controlled scripts.

Experience leading complex incidents and communicating clearly under production pressure.

Measures of Success

Improved database availability recovery confidence and adherence to maintenance and patching standards.

Reduced recurring incidents and improved response time through monitoring automation and documented runbooks.

Measurable improvements in critical query and workload performance.

Secure auditable least-privilege database access with clear ownership and review practices.

Successful upgrades and migrations with validated rollback and recovery plans.

General Competencies

Hands-on ownership sound judgment attention to detail and disciplined follow-through.

Clear written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Ability to mentor team members lead design or incident reviews and document repeatable standards.

Commitment to security data privacy responsible technology use and continuous learning.

Contract Type :

Permanent

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