Database Manager

Location: Phoenix, AZ
Employment: Full-time

Position Overview

Seeking an experienced Database Manager to lead the administration, performance, security, and reliability of a Microsoft SQL Server environment. This role provides technical leadership to a small database/reporting team while working with IT, security, and business stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage SQL Server availability, performance, capacity, backups, recovery, and disaster recovery.

• Troubleshoot complex performance issues involving execution plans, indexing, statistics, blocking, and resource utilization.

• Design and maintain high-availability solutions, including Always On, failover clustering, replication, and log shipping.

• Establish database security, access controls, encryption, auditing, and compliance practices.

• Automate database administration, maintenance, and deployment processes using PowerShell and related tools.

• Oversee SSIS/SSRS, reporting, ETL, and data integration activities.

• Lead database incidents, root-cause analysis, documentation, and operational improvements.

• Supervise and provide technical direction to database and reporting/ETL staff.

• Manage vendors, licensing, technical projects, and after-hours escalation as needed.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of Microsoft SQL Server administration in production environments.

• 2+ years of technical leadership or supervisory experience.

• Strong experience with SQL Server, T-SQL, Always On, backup/recovery, SQL Server Agent, and performance tuning.

• Working knowledge of SSIS and SSRS.

• Experience with PowerShell automation.

• Understanding of Windows Server, storage, and virtualization as they relate to database performance.

• Experience with database security and audited or regulated environments.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.

• Ability to participate in an on-call rotation and occasional after-hours maintenance.

Preferred

• Power BI or SSAS experience.

• SQL Server migrations and upgrades.

• Redgate, SolarWinds/SentryOne, Idera, dbatools, or similar tools.

• Experience establishing or improving a database administration function.

• Review schema design and data model changes prior to production release