- Salary
- $110k – $145k/yr
- Location
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States, Washington DC
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- IT
- Seniority
- Senior
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Education
- Bachelor
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- Pinpoint
Description
Senior SQL Database Administrator
Application Deadline: 20 November 2026
Department: Federal Services
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Washington, DC
Compensation: $110,000 - $145,000 / year
Description
TeleSolv Consulting is seeking an experienced Senior SQL Database Administrator (Senior SQL DBA) to provide enterprise database administration and operational support for Microsoft SQL Server environments supporting mission-critical applications. The successful candidate will help ensure database availability, reliability, performance and security while working independently and collaborating with application-development and other technical teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer Microsoft SQL Server databases supporting enterprise applications.
- Install, configure, maintain, patch and upgrade SQL Server environments.
- Monitor database health, availability, capacity and performance.
- Conduct database performance analysis and tuning.
- Develop and maintain database backup and recovery processes.
- Troubleshoot database performance and availability issues.
- Support database security and access-control requirements.
- Assist application-development teams with database design and configuration.
- Support database changes associated with application releases.
- Maintain database configurations and technical documentation.
- Support production database incident and problem resolution.
- Collaborate with .NET developers, Azure developers, DevOps engineers and other technical personnel.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- Advanced Microsoft SQL Server administration and troubleshooting.
- Enterprise production database support.
- Database performance analysis and tuning.
- Backup and recovery practices.
- Database security and access control.
- Database configuration, maintenance, patching and upgrades.
- Support for business-critical enterprise applications.
- Ability to work effectively with software-development, Azure and DevOps teams.
- Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery and database modernization is desirable.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree.
- At least 7 years of database administration experience.
- At least 5 years of Microsoft SQL Server experience in enterprise production environments.
- Strong SQL Server administration and troubleshooting experience.
- Experience supporting production databases and business-critical applications.
- Experience with database backup and recovery.
- Experience with database performance tuning.
- Ability to successfully complete the Government-required criminal-history check, fingerprinting and badging process.
Skills
AzureSQLSQL ServerDevOps