DBA – Database Administrator – Local to SC
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Job Deadline: 11/13/2025 @ 5:00PM EST
* Position: DBA – Database Administrator – Local to SC
* Work Location: Role is hybrid (3 days onsite per week)
* Candidate Location: Candidate must be a CURRENT SC resident. No relocation allowed.
* Duration of the Contract: 12 Months
* Possibility for Extension: Yes
* Interview Process: 1 round, virtual (video required)
Job Description
Scope of the Project: This request is for a senior-level database administrator to
Scope of the Project
* Provide senior-level support and guidance to our Child Care team for several initiatives;
* Assist (at a senior-level) with the support, maintenance, security, and availability of our SQL environment.
Daily Duties / Responsibilities
Primarily, this position will provide senior-level support and guidance to our Child Care team, including mentoring Child Care developers on schema and query design, execution-plan review/tuning, and security best practices.
In addition to this, this position will assist (at a senior-level) with the support, maintenance, security, and availability of the agency’s SQL Server environment for other application teams, while prioritizing Child Care commitments.
* Designs, develops, implements, and maintains database, procedures, and functions that accommodate changing business priorities and technological changes while ensuring availability, scalability, performance, recoverability, reliability, and security.
* Acts as liaison for SQL Server database performance, integration, migration, upgrade, storage, and replication strategies.
* Performs SQL Server performance tuning: waits/Query Store analysis, index & stats optimization, SARGability fixes, and parallelism tuning.
* Monitors the database systems to ensure secure services with minimum downtime; configures alerts and telemetry for proactive detection.
* Interacts with project management and Agile development teams to develop a strong understanding of project and database development objectives.
* Participates in troubleshooting and triaging of issues with different team members to drive towards root cause identification and resolution.
* Documents, tracks and escalates issues as appropriate.
* Participates in Scrum teams in support of Agile projects; end-to-end support for build, deployment, and operational activities.
* Exercises considerable latitude, discretion, and independent judgment in determining technical objectives of assignments.
* Performs routine operations and maintenance including installations, upgrades, patching, monitoring, auditing, and issue resolution.
* Manages and prioritizes multiple, diverse tasks simultaneously.
* Must be flexible, independent and self‑motivated.
* Work collaboratively to meet team goals/mission.
* Provides after‑hours or weekend maintenance as needed.
* Perform other duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications
* Database Administration
Expert
6+ Years
* Backup/Recovery
Expert
6+ Years
* Performance Tuning
Expert
6+ Years
* RDBMS
Expert
6+ Years
* SQL Server
Expert
6+ Years
* T‑SQL
Expert
6+ Years
* Failover Clusters
Expert
2-4 Years
* High‑Availability
Expert
2-4 Years
* DMVs
Expert
2-4 Years
* SSIS Services
Expert
2-4 Years
* SSRS
Expert
2-4 Years
* Profiler
Expert
2-4 Years
* SQL Tuning
Expert
2-4 Years
* Database planning, scaling, and capacity planning
Expert
2-4 Years
* SQL Server 2008R2
Expert
1-2 Years
* SQL Server 2012
Expert
1-2 Years
* SQL Server 2014
Expert
1-2 Years
* SQL Server 2016
Expert
1-2 Years
* ETL
Advanced
2-4 Years
* SSAS
Advanced
2-4 Years
* Verbal Communication
Intermediate
2-4 Years
* Written Communication
Intermediate
2-4 Years
* PowerShell
Intermediate
1-2 Years
* RedGate Toolset
Intermediate
1-2 Years
* SDLC
Intermediate
1-2 Years
Preferred Qualifications
* N/A
Required Education
* Bachelor's Degree
Preferred Education/Certifications
* N/A
Seniority level
* Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
* Contract
Job function
* Information Technology
* Software Development
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