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# SQL Database Administrator 2

- **Company:** V.L.S. Systems, Inc
- **Location:** Richmond, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Backup Devices, Databases, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle (Applications), SQL Databases, Sql Tuning
- **Published:** August 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/386400db-69a2-467e-bfca-bff0ae85c53f

## About the Role

· Administration and management of production databases. - Required - 5 Years

· Basic to advanced troubleshooting skills. - Required - 5 Years

· Backup/recovery/monitoring of databases. - Required - 5 Years

· Communication within a team environment with peers as well as customer facing. - Required - 5 Years

· Security assessment and review of database administration and access. - Required - 5 Years

· Design, configuration, deploying, troubleshooting, administration, and maintaining systems. - Required - 5 Years

· Ensuring project and workload documentation and process are accurate, on time, and stored properly. - Required - 5 Years

## Description

Current need is for a Database Administrator 2 to assist with migrating existing databases from one hosted platform to a new hosted platform. Someone with knowledge of moving or migrating databases, as well as systems validation after migration. Considerable working background in Microsoft SQL database administration. Architecture and troubleshooting in a working environment. Database administration and backup/recovery management. Working knowledge of backing up and restoring of production databases.

This role will fill day to daily break/fix incident response on our SQL environment. Our SQL environment runs in a SQL Max platform hardware solution, dedicated for SQL performance. The SQL version we are running range from 2008 - 2019. We also have a small Oracle footprint, some experience in Oracle is great, but the primary focus will be SQL. Other daily tasks may include utilized for running updates, restore, and recovery if or when required.

We are looking to free up some work for our dedicated DBA who is working primarily on project work and migrations. Currently working on a SQL Mac migration project to move from an EOL hardware to a new solution.


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