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Role: SQL Database Administrator Location: Canada(Remote)
Responsibilities: Administer, monitor, and maintain SQL Server database environments. Manage database backups, restores, disaster recovery processes, and high availability configurations. Diagnose and resolve database performance issues, blocking, deadlocks, failed jobs, and capacity constraints. Optimize queries, indexes, and execution plans in partnership with development teams. Configure and maintain database security, user access, roles, permissions, and privileged access controls. Support PAM and BeyondTrust onboarding activities for database accounts, access workflows, and privileged credential management. Implement and support data masking solutions for sensitive and regulated data sets. Develop and maintain automation scripts for routine DBA tasks, monitoring, deployments, and operational support. Support patching, upgrades, migrations, and environment refresh activities. Create and maintain operational documentation, maintenance plans, and recovery runbooks. Monitor database health, storage growth, and system performance using standard DBA tools. Ensure data integrity, system availability, and compliance with internal security and operational standards. Provide production support, incident response, and root cause analysis as needed.
Required Skills: 10+ years of hands-on SQL Server DBA experience in production environments. Hands on expertise in migration of SQL Server from 2016 to latest SQL version in an Always on setup. Strong experience with Microsoft SQL Server administration, backup and recovery, disaster recovery planning, and performance tuning. Solid knowledge of indexing, statistics, query optimization, and execution plan analysis. Experience with SQL Server Agent, replication, Always On Availability Groups, or clustering and CDC. Proficiency in T-SQL scripting, automation, and troubleshooting. Experience with database security, privileged access management, and auditing practices. Experience with PAM solutions and BeyondTrust onboarding for privileged database access. Experience implementing or supporting data masking for sensitive data protection. Familiarity with Windows Server environments and infrastructure coordination. Ability to work independently, prioritize effectively, and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Experience supporting cloud-hosted SQL environments such as Azure SQL or SQL Server on Azure/AWS. Experience with monitoring tools such as Redgate, SolarWinds, SentryOne, or similar. Background in regulated, security-sensitive, or high-availability environments. Experience with CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and release support for database changes.
Regards Praveen Kumar R (Praveen) Talent Acquisition Group – Strategic Recruitment Manager praveen.r@themesoft.com| Themesoft Inc
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About THEMESOFT
Dallas based, global IT Consulting and Creative Lab firm founded in Aug 2004, Themesoft is a leading provider of in house team, out of house team, or as a somewhere in between global partner. We manage client's information technology needs, refine and define clients digital strategy and create the digital media client's need to communicate their vision. Our success is measured in our client's successful realization of their vision and goals.
As a global IT Consulting and Creative Lab firm, we have the global perspective and the collaborative spirit. We take the time to understand our partner's culture, ideas and aspirations. This partnership approach allows us to take our partners farther than they ever dreamed possible.
Themesoft partners with all types of businesses from small bright idea start ups to industry leaders. Our portfolio of diverse and global companies teach us something new everyday.
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We have 9 offices located in the United States, Canada, Singapore, and India.