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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior SQL Server Database Administrator - **Company:** JRH Consultants - **Location:** Bethesda, MD, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $125,000.0 - $150,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Microsoft Windows, Business Analytics Applications, User Authentication, Microsoft Azure, Ubuntu (Operating System), Configuration Management, Databases, Data Integration, Data Mart, Data Structures, Data Warehousing, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Failover Clustering, Interoperability, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle (Applications), Performance Tuning, Query Optimization, Release Management, Power BI, SQL Stored Procedures, SQL Server Reporting Services, SQL Server Agent, SQL Server Integration Services, SQL Server Analysis Services, Systems Integration, Transact-SQL, Enterprise Data Management, Cloud Platform System, Indexer, Information Technology, Qlikview, Tools for Reporting, Database View - **Published:** July 8, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=8975a3cb1ed6cff3 ## About the Role · More than five years of Microsoft SQL Server database-administration experience. · Extensive experience administering SQL Server databases in standalone and clustered architectures on Windows. · Experience supporting SQL Server databases in both on-premises and cloud environments. · Extensive experience with SQL Server backup, restore, recovery, failover clustering, job setup, and monitoring. · Strong Transact-SQL skills. · Strong database-performance tuning and troubleshooting skills. · Experience administering or supporting SQL Server Reporting Services, SQL Server Integration Services, and SQL Server Analysis Services. · Strong security, documentation, incident-response, communication, and customer-support skills. Preferred Qualifications: · Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered. · Experience with SQL Server 2016, 2019, or 2022. · Experience administering SQL Server on Windows and in Microsoft Azure. · Experience administering MySQL on Ubuntu. · Experience supporting federal systems, data marts, reporting platforms, or enterprise data-integration workloads. Work Requirements: · Ability to satisfy federal background, suitability, identity-credentialing, and system-access requirements. · Ability to work remotely within the United States and attend occasional onsite meetings in Bethesda, Maryland. · Ability to protect sensitive government information and comply with applicable federal security, privacy, records-management, and acceptable-use requirements. · Availability during regular business hours and, when needed, for scheduled releases, maintenance activities, or urgent production support. ## Description We are seeking a Senior SQL Server Database Administrator to administer, secure, optimize, monitor, and support Microsoft SQL Server database environments for a federal health research customer. The role supports development, test, and production databases across on-premises and cloud environments and requires strong expertise in standalone and clustered architectures, backup and recovery, failover clustering, T-SQL, performance tuning, troubleshooting, SQL Server Agent, SSRS, SSIS, SSAS, security, and data integration., · Administer Microsoft SQL Server databases in development, test, staging, disaster-recovery, and production environments. · Support standalone and clustered SQL Server architectures on Windows in on-premises and cloud environments. · Install, configure, patch, upgrade, secure, monitor, and troubleshoot SQL Server instances and supporting components. · Design, configure, maintain, test, and document full, differential, and transaction-log backup and recovery processes. · Configure, administer, monitor, and troubleshoot SQL Server failover clusters and high-availability capabilities. · Create, schedule, monitor, and troubleshoot SQL Server Agent jobs, maintenance plans, alerts, and automated operational processes. · Write, review, optimize, and troubleshoot T-SQL queries, scripts, stored procedures, functions, triggers, views, and deployment packages. · Perform query tuning, indexing, statistics maintenance, execution-plan analysis, capacity planning, and performance optimization. · Manage users, roles, permissions, service accounts, authentication, auditing, encryption, and database-security configuration. · Administer and support SQL Server Reporting Services, SQL Server Integration Services, and SQL Server Analysis Services. · Support schema changes, application releases, data migrations, data refreshes, synchronization, reporting, and data-integration workflows. · Develop and maintain database views, data structures, data marts, and integrations supporting Power BI, Qlik, and other analytics platforms. · Support interoperability and data exchange involving Oracle, MySQL, external federal systems, COTS applications, and data warehouses. · Monitor database health, availability, storage, performance, security, backups, jobs, and data loads; proactively identify and resolve issues. · Troubleshoot complex database, connectivity, performance, cluster, backup, recovery, and production incidents. · Develop and maintain database architecture documentation, standard operating procedures, runbooks, backup/recovery plans, and change records. · Support federal security, privacy, vulnerability-remediation, configuration-management, and audit requirements. · Collaborate with application developers, infrastructure engineers, security teams, data teams, and customer stakeholders. ## Related Videos - [Hacking MSSQL on Cloud. 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