Job Description A healthcare technology organization is hiring
two Senior Database Engineers to support and modernize a business-critical database environment.
This is a hands-on engineering role for someone with deep Microsoft SQL Server experience who also understands cloud database environments. The organization is beginning a longer-term modernization initiative that will move database workloads into AWS and increasingly leverage managed and PostgreSQL-based database technologies.
The successful candidate will combine strong production DBA fundamentals with cloud engineering, automation, observability, performance optimization, and migration experience.
RESPONSIBILITIES Engineer and support highly available, business-critical SQL Server database environments. Troubleshoot complex database performance, locking, blocking, resource, connectivity, and availability problems. Analyze execution plans and optimize queries, stored procedures, indexes, schemas, statistics, and application data-access patterns. Support database migrations and modernization initiatives involving AWS and managed database services. Help evaluate and execute longer-term transitions toward PostgreSQL and cloud-native database platforms. Build and improve database monitoring, telemetry, alerting, automation, and operational tooling. Support backup/recovery, disaster recovery, replication, resiliency, patching, upgrades, and database lifecycle management. Partner directly with application and infrastructure engineers during projects and production incidents. Role Requirements Significant hands-on Microsoft SQL Server engineering/administration experience. Advanced SQL Server troubleshooting and performance-tuning skills. Production experience supporting databases in AWS. Experience with Amazon RDS, Aurora, EC2-based database environments, or related AWS database services. Experience participating in database migrations, upgrades, or re-platforming initiatives. Strong production-support and incident-resolution capabilities. Experience automating database engineering or operational processes. Ability to work broadly across database, cloud, application, monitoring, and operational concerns. Comfortable working in a small engineering team where responsibilities are not heavily siloed. Ability to work EST hours and participate in rotational production support. PREFERRED EXPERIENCE PostgreSQL administration and performance tuning. Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. SQL Server-to-PostgreSQL migration experience. Azure SQL technologies. Infrastructure as Code. IDERA or comparable database monitoring platforms. Show more Numbers & Facts Location Remote, NY (Remote
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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)unmatched
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)unmatched
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Database Administrationunmatched
Database Programmingunmatched
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Disaster Recoveryunmatched
Healthcareunmatched
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Identify Issuesunmatched
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