About this role
Job title: Sr. SQL Database Administrator
About the Role Onebridge is seeking a Sr. SQL Database Administrator to ensure the stability, performance, and security of mission-critical Microsoft SQL Server platforms across development, test, and production environments. This role requires deep hands-on experience with high availability, disaster recovery, and performance optimization at scale. You will collaborate with application, infrastructure, and security teams and emphasize automation and documentation.
What You'll Do
- Own the administration and operational health of Microsoft SQL Server environments across development, test, and production.
- Manage backup, restore, disaster recovery, and high-availability solutions, including Always On Availability Groups.
- Investigate and resolve complex performance issues such as blocking, deadlocks, failed jobs, and resource contention.
- Collaborate with application teams to tune queries, indexes, statistics, and execution plans for optimal performance.
- Implement and maintain database security, user access, and privileged access workflows, including privileged access management solutions and BeyondTrust.
- Automate routine DBA tasks, support upgrades and migrations, and maintain clear operational documentation and recovery runbooks.
What We're Looking For
- 10+ years of hands-on experience administering Microsoft SQL Server in production environments.
- Strong expertise in performance tuning, backup and recovery, disaster recovery planning, and high-availability architectures.
- Proven experience migrating SQL Server from 2016 to newer versions in an Always On Availability Group setup.
- Advanced proficiency in T-SQL scripting, troubleshooting, and automation.
- Experience with SQL Server Agent, replication, clustering, or CDC in enterprise environments.
- Demonstrated experience managing database security, auditing, privileged access management, and data masking.