Staff Database Administrator

Overview

Own and evolve SQL Server database infrastructure across production and non-production environments as a senior individual contributor in the Infrastructure and Operations team, serving as the primary escalation point for critical database incidents.

What you'll do

• Own day-to-day administration, maintenance, monitoring, patching, and health of SQL Server environments across production, staging, and development.
• Drive database performance optimization through query tuning, execution plan analysis, index design, statistics management, and wait statistics analysis.
• Design, implement, and operate high-availability solutions, including SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, log shipping, and failover procedures.
• Own backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies, including point-in-time recovery, log chain management, recovery validation, and regular DR failover testing.
• Partner with application development teams to manage schema migrations and database changes while maintaining data integrity across multi-tenant environments.
• Define and own the long-term SQL Server technology roadmap, including evaluating cloud database options such as Azure SQL and AWS RDS where appropriate.
• Lead database capacity planning and forecasting across storage, IOPS, compute, and database growth requirements.
• Partner with Security, AWS Cloud, and DevOps teams on database security, access controls, encryption, monitoring, and CI/CD-based database deployments.
• Serve as a primary escalation point for critical database incidents and participate in the on-call rotation.

What you'll need

• 6 or more years of hands-on SQL Server DBA experience in production enterprise environments, with demonstrated ownership at a senior or principal level.
• Deep expertise in SQL Server performance tuning: execution plans, query rewrites, index design, statistics management, and wait type analysis.
• Proven experience designing and operating SQL Server high availability solutions, specifically Always On Availability Groups.
• Solid understanding of SQL Server backup and recovery architectures, including point-in-time recovery, log chain management, and DR failover testing.
• Experience supporting multi-tenant SaaS platforms at scale, including schema versioning, tenant isolation, and database-per-tenant or shared-schema architectures.
• Strong scripting ability in T-SQL and PowerShell for automation of routine DBA tasks, alerting, and maintenance.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in written English with a distributed team across US and India time zones.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with cloud-hosted SQL environments including Azure SQL or AWS RDS is a meaningful advantage for this role.
• Python scripting experience for database automation or monitoring integrations.
• Familiarity with CMMC 2.0, FedRAMP, or other compliance frameworks that intersect with database security controls.
• Previous experience in an MSP, SaaS, or IT management software company.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Distributed team across US and India time zones.
• Participation in the on-call rotation.