Advanced SQL Database Administrator

Our Company:ISN was established in 2001 and is a global leader in contractor and supplier work closely with a variety of household-name clients in the US Canada Europe Australia Latin America and the Middle East to connect them with safe and reliable contractors and suppliers and incorporate a level of due diligence in the contractor management process.

The Position: The Advanced Database Administrator is responsible for maintaining ISNs SQL Servers and SQL Databases (both virtual machine-based and cloud-based) Azure Cosmos DB migrating IaaS-based workloads and systems to PaaS/SaaS helping development teams with deployments and helping maintain uptime for ISNs application environments. ISN has multiple large web applications written in and the DBA team supports over 300 individual SQL Server databases in Production environments. This position is responsible for maintaining the environment supporting and maintaining the SQL Server databases and promptly responding to the ISN Products teams requests for tuning optimization and other database support.

Who should apply

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field from an accredited university and/or equivalent work experience
• Azure certifications are strongly preferred (AZ-900 DP-300)
• 3 years of experience in troubleshooting SQL Server availability issues related to clustering Always On SQL replication
• 3 years of experience managing SQL jobs including database maintenance jobs (backups index maintenance)
• 1 years of experience in administering SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
• 1 years of experience in administering and supporting Azure Cosmos DB Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance and ensuring reliability performance and security.
• 1 years managing SQL Servers using Powershell
• Strong knowledge of high availability and data movement technologies such as AlwaysOn Availability Groups Change Data Capture SQL Replication SQL Clustering along with disaster recovery concepts (RPO/RTO).

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Maintain monitor and manage the SQL Server databases in all application environments
• Troubleshoot availability issues related to clustering on Windows Server SQL Server on Virtual Machines Azure SQL Server Managed Instances AlwaysOn Readable Secondaries AlwaysOn Availability Groups SQL replication SQL Failover Groups
• Troubleshoot performance locking and blocking issues within SQL Server databases tempdb virtual machines
• Proactively and reactively resolve database performance and capacity issues including managing indexes SQL trace data Extended Events audits and alerting
• Manage SQL Server jobs and Windows scheduled tasks
• Perform safe upgrades and migrations for IaaS-based SQL Servers
• Automate routine tasks alert response using PowerShell or other tools

Job Location: 3232 McKinney Ave Ste 1500 Dallas TX 75204.

• Employees must be within a commutable distance to the Dallas TX office. Relocation is required for candidates not already local to the DFW area.
• In-office attendance up to two times per week for the first 90 days of employment.
• After 90 days completion you will have an option to work remotely with at least 1 in-person engagement required monthly (team collaboration day ISN events team events performance reviews etc.).

ISN Benefits*

• 100% company-paid monthly insurance premiumsfor employees and dependents
• Medical Dental Vision and Life Insurance
• Employee assistance program
• 4% retirement matching
• Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Coverage
• Paid time off
• 0-1 year 15 day (pro-rated first year)
• 1-5 years 20 days
• 5-10 years 25 days
• 10 years 30 days
• Holidays 13 paid holidays
• Monthly cell phone reimbursement
• Complimentary parking space or monthly reimbursement for DART public transportation
• Team-building activities and events including quarterly kick-off meetings and community volunteer day
• Matching charitable gift program
• Professional development & training opportunities
• Wellness Program: Focuses on community financial mental nutrition physical and social health
• Business casual jeans allowed

*All benefits are subject to change with notice to the employee

All job offers will be contingent on successful completion of a drug screen and background check.

ISN is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin veteran or disability status.