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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # SQL Server DBA - **Company:** Mizuho Americas Services LLC - **Location:** New York, NY, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $77,000.0 - $145,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Performance Management, Microsoft Azure, Cyber Security, Databases, Data Manipulation Languages, Data Recovery, Data Security, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Log Shipping, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Azure, Oracle Rac, Platform as a Service (PAAS), Windows PowerShell, Server Administration, Software Engineering, SQL Stored Procedures, SQL Databases, Data Streaming, Data Processing, Azure Automation, Scripting, Database Mirroring, Database Replication, Database Monitoring - **Published:** August 5, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/senior-sql-server-dba-new-york-ny--78cc069e-5d6f-4d10-bebb-5d18e37006de ## About the Role Administrative Skills, Analysis Skills, Automation, Business Processes, CPU (Central Processing Unit), Capacity Management, Change Requests/Orders, Communication Skills, Data Processing, Data Quality, Data Recovery, Database Administration, Database Replication, Documentation, Forecasting, Identify Issues, Information/Data Security (InfoSec), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Memory Hardware, Metrics, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Server DBA (Database Administration), Microsoft Windows Azure, On Call, Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Problem Solving Skills, Procedure Development, Production Systems, Registered Training Organisation (RTO), Replication and Remote Mirroring, SQL (Structured Query Language), SQL Databases, Scripting (Scripting Languages), Service Level Agreement (SLA), Software Administration, Software Development, Stored Procedures, Team Player, Windows PowerShell ## Description In this role you will be responsible for maintaining the firm's MS SQL Server systems ensuring resiliency, uptime, HA/DR, performance, capacity planning, overall monitoring and documentation. This role requires a service-oriented mentality, high sense of ownership of the problems and requests assigned, a focus on managing and resolving issues in alignment with MAS SLAs, establishing and maintaining communication with stakeholders to keep them updated with status of their requests, initiating and performing changes on production systems and proactively escalating any issues that cannot be resolved within the established timeframes. Position Requirements: * Experience administering SQL Server 2012 to SQL 2019 at a L3 level. * Experience with SQL Azure (IAAS, PAAS, SQL DB) * Act as a senior operational/escalation DBA * Resolve monitoring alerts related to disk space and CPU/memory resource contention, instance availability and similar basic monitoring metrics. * Help manage replication and HA technologies, namely log shipping, transactional replication, SQL Server Availability Groups, database mirroring, and Oracle RAC. * Manage HA/DR setups to meet or exceed application RTO/RPO targets and implement solutions for managing backup and recovery. * Troubleshoot and resolve performance issues including but not limited to investigating infrastructure issues, query execution plans, query store, generate traces, execution plans, identify and resolve performance issues, address deadlocks/contention. * Evaluate on premise SQL workloads for migration to Azure and recommend appropriate Azure services * Install, configure, and maintain a SQL footprint in Azure, including SQL on Azure VM, Azure SQL Managed Instance, Azure SQL Database. * Migrate on-premise SQL workloads to Azure. * Automate routine database tasks and processes using tools like PowerShell and Azure Automation. * Use available toolset (OpsRamp, SQLSentry, etc.) for database monitoring & tuning. * Support change requests by deploying SQL scripts or other code fixes as relayed by the business. * Support software developers to drive proper coding practices and assist in the development of complex SQL, tuning of DML and the creation of stored procedures/functions/triggers/etc. * Engage in continuous sizing analysis to forecast growth and work with storage team to ensure adequate space on all servers. * Maintain data integrity and security (manage roles and permissions of database users). * Effectively coordinate and communicate with all stakeholders. * Learn and exercise relevant business procedures, processes and understand data flow, criticality and dependencies. * Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation to support database environment. * Support ancillary systems in the database environment (Delphix, monitoring applications, etc.) * Other general DBA administration tasks * At least a minimum of 8+ years of experience ## Related Videos - [Hacking MSSQL on Cloud. 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