Senior SQL DBA
Fully Remote
12 Month + contract

We are partnered with a large asset management shop in Boston and seeking a Sr. SQL Server DBA.

What You’ll Do:

• Support and enhance our existing application database infrastructure, provide administration and operational support of production databases, including on-call responsibilities.
• Pro-actively tune and optimize existing workloads.
• Contribute to automation efforts with respect to infrastructure as code and database code deployments.
• Plan and execute the migration of existing data environments from on-premises to AWS and/or Snowflake.
• Contribute to project-based work while managing the on-demand workload of pro-active support.
• Collaborate with other teams to ensure best practices and adherence to architectural standards.
• In addition to core database related responsibilities, the engineer will have an opportunity contribute to all aspects of product engineering within the team.

We’re Looking for Teammates With:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field with 7+ years of experience as a database engineer in financial services or a similar domain.
• Administration level expertise with Microsoft SQL Server.
• Experience with operational support of production databases.
• T-SQL programming, performance, and optimization
• Experience with backup/recovery tasks, user administration, data system installation and configuration
• Hands-on experience working with software engineering teams on data architecture and database design.
• Software development or scripting experience (python, PowerShell, C#, node.js, etc.)
• Experience with the following a plus:
  • Infrastructure as code, preferably HashiCorp Terraform
  • Amazon Web Services, including both relational and non-relational database services.
  • Snowflake Data Platform.