Sr. Database Administrator (DBA) — Tallahassee, FL

This is an onsite work position based in Tallahassee,FL. Apply only if you are willing to relocate.

Education: Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, xXeqeTaKHAK 9SWsTwK, or related field; or equivalent work experience

Certifications: Current Microsoft certifications relevant to Azure Database Administrator, Azure Data Engineer, Azure Solutions Architect, or related database technologies

Required Experience

• 10+ years of experience administering enterprise Microsoft SQL Server environments, including production and non-production systems of medium to high complexity

• Experience administering Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, or SQL Server hosted in Microsoft Azure.

• Experience with database installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, security administration, monitoring, performance tuning, capacity planning, backup, recovery, and high availability.

• Strong experience with T-SQL, schema and physical database design, indexing, stored procedures, views, functions, execution plans, and query optimization.

• Experience designing and supporting data transformation and integration processes, including ETL/ELT, data mapping, validation, scheduling, and error handling.

• Experience supporting or troubleshooting Windows Services and scheduled processes that interact with Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL, Power BI, or enterprise applications.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with Azure services that support database, integration, monitoring, security, storage, automation, or data processing workloads.

• Experience eliciting, analyzing, documenting, and validating business and technical requirements with stakeholders.

• Experience supporting regulated or government environments and implementing role-based access, auditing, encryption, least privilege, and data protection practices.

• Experience with Azure DevOps, source control, deployment pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, PowerShell, or other database automation and release-management practices.

Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, monitor, and support enterprise Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL databases across development, test, staging, and production environments.

• Configure and maintain instances, databases, storage, access controls, service accounts, encryption, auditing, database mail, jobs, alerts, and monitoring.

• Plan, implement, test, and document backup, restore, high availability, disaster recovery, database integrity, and continuity procedures.

• Monitor and tune database performance through query analysis, execution plans, indexing, statistics, configuration, capacity planning, and resource optimization.

• Design and maintain logical and physical data models, schemas, data dictionaries, tables, views, stored procedures, functions, and related database objects.

• Design, build, maintain, and troubleshoot data transformation and integration processes, including ETL/ELT workflows, data mapping, validation, scheduling, and error handling.

• Support and troubleshoot Windows Services, scheduled tasks, and application components that depend on database connectivity, data processing, or integration services.

• Support approved Azure services and hybrid connectivity used by Azure SQL, SQL Server, data integration, monitoring, security, storage, and automation solutions.

• Elicit, analyze, document, validate, and translate business requirements into secure, supportable database and data solutions.

• Perform incident response, root-cause analysis, remediation, change implementation, and knowledge transfer for database-related issues.

• Create and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, architecture diagrams, runbooks, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

• Attend project and operational meetings, provide regular status updates, and submit weekly project reports and time sheets.

• Coach, mentor, training, and provide knowledge transfer to OATS staff and project teams