Senior Database Administrator (Sql)

Our Company: ISN was established in 2001 and is a global leader in contractor and supplier management. We work closely with a variety of household-name clients in the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, Latin America, and the Middle East to connect them with safe and reliable contractors and suppliers and incorporate a level of due diligence in the contractor management process.

The Position: The Senior Database Administrator is responsible for maintaining the ISNetworld SQL Servers (both virtual machine-based and cloud-based) and databases, ensuring database availability and uptime for both high availability and disaster recovery, leading migration efforts related to moving IaaS-based workloads and systems into PaaS/SaaS equivalent, helping ISN's products development teams with source control and both manual and automated deployments for SQL code, and maintaining uptime for the ISNetworld environments.

Who should apply?

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field from an accredited university and/or equivalent work experience

• 5+ years of experience in Microsoft SQL Server Database Administration on SQL Server 2016+

• 2+ years of experience managing Microsoft SQL Server 2019+ with extensive knowledge of new features

• 2+ years of experience managing systems in Microsoft Azure cloud platform

• Strong knowledge of SQL Server Always On, security model, and managing SQL jobs in an enterprise

• Strong knowledge and experience in troubleshooting SQL availability, blocking and locking issues, index design, monitoring logs for critical events, SQL Profiler and SQL Trace, SQL backup and restore, SQL Agent

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Maintain, monitor, and manage the SQL Server databases in all ISNetworld environments

• Troubleshoot performance and availability issues related to Windows Server, SQL Server on Virtual Machines, Azure SQL Server Managed Instances, Always On Readable Secondaries, Always On Availability Groups, SQL Service Broker, and SQL replication

• Continuously monitor and baseline SQL Server databases, performance, security, and changes

• Proactively and reactively resolve database performance and capacity issues, including managing indexes, statistics, SQL trace data, audits, and alerting

• Manage SQL Server jobs and Windows scheduled tasks, including synchronizing across multiple instances

• Perform cumulative updates, migrate and upgrade SQL Server versions as needed for IaaS (Virtual Machine) deployments

• Lead efforts to migrate IaaS (Virtual Machine) workloads built on/in SQL Server to PaaS/SaaS

Job Location: 3232 McKinney Ave Ste 1500, Dallas, TX 75204

• Employees must be within a commutable distance to the Dallas, TX office. Relocation is required for candidates not already local to the DFW area.

• Your role on the Products team will have the option to work remotely with at least one in-person engagement required quarterly.

ISN Benefits*

• 100% company-paid monthly insurance premiums for employees and dependents

• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance

• Employee assistance program

• 4% retirement matching

• Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Coverage

• Paid time off

• 0-1 year

• 15 day (pro-rated first year)

• 1-5 years

• 20 days

• 5-10 years

• 25 days

• 10+ years

• 30 days

• Holidays

• 13 paid holidays

• Monthly cell phone reimbursement

• Complimentary parking space or monthly reimbursement for DART public transportation

• Team-building activities and events, including quarterly kick-off meetings and community volunteer day

• Matching charitable gift program

• Professional development & training opportunities

• Wellness Program: Focuses on community, financial, mental, nutrition, physical and social health

• Business casual, jeans allowed

• All benefits are subject to change with notice to the employee

All job offers will be contingent on successful completion of a drug screen and background check.

ISN is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.