Senior Database Engineer / DBA

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We are looking for a Senior Database Engineer / DBA to own and maintain a roughly 65TB Microsoft SQL Server estate running in a highly available, clustered configuration and directly supporting the Insightly CRM product . You will work with SQL Server, Always On Availability Groups, database security, performance optimization, and disaster recovery to ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of a live, customer-facing SaaS platform. This is production database work, not an analytics or reporting role .

Contract Duration: This is a temporary position with a 6-month contract .

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Lead maintenance of the production SQL Server environment in an Always On availability group configuration, including failover handling, sync delay troubleshooting, and read replica load management.
• Carry 24x7 on-call for SQL alerts, lead incident response and root cause analysis for query plan regressions, TempDB contention, and deadlocks or blocking.
• Maintain database security: TDE, auditing, certificate and key rotation, and monitoring for anomalous access patterns.
• Run quarterly cumulative update patching across environments, index and statistics maintenance, and partitioning and archiving on multi-terabyte databases without blocking production.
• Own capacity planning for storage, CPU, and memory, and manage the recurring cycle of environment refreshes (staging, dev, QA).
• Review developers' T-SQL and schema changes before deployment, and advise on table and index design.
• Support customer instance migrations between regions (sold as a service) and database prep for those moves.
• Handle confidential or legally sensitive data requests when they arise, including from law enforcement, following established process.
• Design and test disaster recovery for the database environment.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

• 7 years of hands-on Microsoft SQL Server DBA experience in a 24x7 production environment, not SQL development alone.
• 3 years of direct experience with Always On availability groups, including failover handling and sync delay troubleshooting.
• Experience managing multi-terabyte production databases, including partitioning, archiving, and index and statistics maintenance without blocking production.
• Experience leading incident response and root cause analysis for production database issues.
• Experience with database security practices: TDE, auditing, certificate and key rotation.
• English proficiency: C1 (Advanced) or higher for real-time incident communication, with meaningful business hours overlap with Pacific time.

WHAT WOULD BE A PLUS?

• Experience supporting a SaaS CRM or similarly high-transaction-volume application.
• Exposure to Snowflake, Redshift, or AWS Aurora alongside transactional SQL Server work.
• Experience with customer instance migrations or similar large-scale data movement projects
• Experience in a SOC 2, HIPAA, or PCI-regulated environment.
• Comfort handling legally sensitive or confidential data requests as part of a defined process.