Sr. Database Administrator – Contract to Hire | Coppell, TX | Face-to-Face Interview | USCGC

Job Title: Sr Database Administrator

Duration: 6-month contract-to-hire

Location: Coppell TX onsite and only local to Dallas TX candidates GC and USC Mandatory in-person interview

We are seeking an experienced SQL Database Administrator Contractor to support the performance reliability security and availability of our database environment. This role is responsible for administering Microsoft SQL Server databases across development test and production systems with a strong focus on backup and recovery disaster recovery preparedness performance tuning monitoring troubleshooting data masking and automation. The contractor will work closely with application teams infrastructure engineers security stakeholders and access management teams to ensure database platforms remain stable scalable secure and compliant.

Key responsibilities

• Administer monitor and maintain SQL Server database environments.
• Manage database backups restores disaster recovery processes and high availability configurations.
• Diagnose and resolve database performance issues blocking deadlocks failed jobs and capacity constraints.
• Optimize queries indexes and execution plans in partnership with development teams.
• Configure and maintain database security user access roles permissions and privileged access controls.
• Support PAM and BeyondTrust onboarding activities for database accounts access workflows and privileged credential management.
• Implement and support data masking solutions for sensitive and regulated data sets.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts for routine DBA tasks monitoring deployments and operational support.
• Support patching upgrades migrations and environment refresh activities.
• Create and maintain operational documentation maintenance plans and recovery runbooks.
• Monitor database health storage growth and system performance using standard DBA tools.
• Ensure data integrity system availability and compliance with internal security and operational standards.
• Provide production support incident response and root cause analysis as needed.

Required qualifications

• 10 years of hands-on SQL Server DBA experience in production environments.
• Strong experience with Microsoft SQL Server administration backup and recovery disaster recovery planning and performance tuning.
• Solid knowledge of indexing statistics query optimization and execution plan analysis.
• Experience with SQL Server Agent replication Always On Availability Groups or clustering.
• Proficiency in T-SQL scripting automation and troubleshooting.
• Experience with database security privileged access management and auditing practices.
• Experience with PAM solutions and BeyondTrust onboarding for privileged database access.
• Experience implementing or supporting data masking for sensitive data protection.
• Familiarity with Windows Server environments and infrastructure coordination.
• Ability to work independently prioritize effectively and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience supporting cloud-hosted SQL environments such as Azure SQL or SQL Server on Azure/AWS.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Redgate SolarWinds SentryOne or similar.
• Background in regulated security-sensitive or high-availability environments.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines deployment automation and release support for database changes.

Additional Information :

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Contract