Senior SQL Server Database Administrator at Nary, NC

Job Title: Senior SQL Server Database Administrator (ITAR SQL)

Location: Cary, NC (5 days onsite from day 1)

Duration: Long-term Contract

Client is Looking SQL Server DBA only

Key Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, maintain, troubleshoot, and support Microsoft SQL Server databases across production, test, and disaster recovery environments.
• Install, configure, patch, upgrade, migrate, and deploy SQL Server databases and related components.
• Serve as SME for Nutanix Database Services (NDB) and support SQL workloads hosted on Nutanix platforms.
• Manage SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, Failover Clustering, Database Mirroring, and Log Shipping.
• Perform database performance tuning, capacity planning, monitoring, root cause analysis, and issue resolution.
• Design, implement, test, and maintain database high availability, backup/recovery, business continuity, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Administer Dell EMC Avamar and Data Domain backup solutions for SQL Server environments.
• Participate in on-call support rotation and provide L3 support for critical production incidents and outages.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, operating procedures, runbooks, and compliance-related artifacts.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, application, security, storage, and DR teams to ensure reliable database operations.

Mandatory Skills

• ITAR / Export Control eligible
• Nutanix Database Service (NDB)
• Microsoft SQL Server Administration
• SQL Server Always On Availability Groups
• SQL Server Clustering
• Database Mirroring
• Log Shipping
• Database Migrations and Upgrades
• SQL Performance Tuning
• Dell EMC Avamar
• Dell EMC Data Domain
• SQL Disaster Recovery
• Production Support / On-call Support

Preferred Experience

• 8+ years of SQL Server DBA experience
• Strong Nutanix/NDB hands-on administration experience
• Experience supporting mission-critical enterprise databases
• Experience supporting regulated environments (ITAR/CUI)