Senior MS SQL Database Administrator/SQL Developer - Tier 2
Full Time • Fully Remote - US
Are you ready to take your SQL skills to the next level? Join SQLWatchmen as a Senior MS SQL Database Administrator/SQL Developer - Tier 2 and become a key player in our fully remote team! You'll be at the forefront of supporting customers’ production and dev SQL servers and supporting and guiding Tier 1 DBAs. This role is perfect for someone who thrives on diagnosing technical issues, enjoys being part of an on-call rotation, and loves communicating with both the team and customers.
Who We Are:
At SQLWatchmen, we pride ourselves on delivering best-in-class MS SQL Server support with unrivaled customer service. With over 16 years in the business, our CEO and founder's passion for MS SQL Server spans more than two decades. We are deeply committed to our culture and seek employees and customers who resonate with our core values:
Who We Are:
At SQLWatchmen, we pride ourselves on delivering best-in-class MS SQL Server support with unrivaled customer service. With over 16 years in the business, our CEO and founder's passion for MS SQL Server spans more than two decades. We are deeply committed to our culture and seek employees and customers who resonate with our core values:
- Be A Partner
- Stay Curious
- Take Ownership
- Help First
- Find Joy in the Work
If these values speak to you, we want to hear from you!
Our DBA Team:
Join our dynamic, fully remote team of five seasoned professionals with over 90 years of combined experience in MS SQL Server. 40% of our DBA team has completed the SQLSkills Black Belt, and you’ll have the chance to achieve this prestigious certification too!
Who You Are:
Our DBA Team:
Join our dynamic, fully remote team of five seasoned professionals with over 90 years of combined experience in MS SQL Server. 40% of our DBA team has completed the SQLSkills Black Belt, and you’ll have the chance to achieve this prestigious certification too!
Who You Are:
- A well-rounded, self-motivated MS SQL Server Database Administrator with over 10 years of experience who desires to supercharge their SQL skills and grow to be a top-tier expert in MS SQL Server performance tuning.
- Detail-oriented with the ability to stay focused and productive working in a fully remote environment.
- You desire to work efficiently and in a consistent manner to improve customer satisfaction and attainment of team metrics.
- You enjoy helping PEOPLE improve their SQL servers. We are SQL consultants. If you don’t like talking and helping people, you will not like working here.
- This position does not offer visa sponsorship. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without employer sponsorship.
You have a savage curiosity about learning SQL and how it behaves in different environments. If you learn rapidly and eagerly, you will love it here!
What This Role Requires of You:
What This Role Requires of You:
- Proactive Monitoring: Keep an eye on SQL Servers and resolve issues via the ticketing system (CW PSA) before they escalate. Escalate tickets to Tier 3 support when necessary.
- Technical Expertise: Showcase your advanced technical and T-SQL programming skills.
- Performance Tuning: Fine-tune indexes and rework queries for optimal performance.
- HA/DR Strategies: Develop, maintain, and monitor high availability and disaster recovery strategies (Clusters, Mirroring, AlwaysOn, Replication, Log Shipping).
- Security: Ensure data and access to SQL Server are secure.
- SSIS: Use SSIS to import data, write calculation Stored Procedures/Views, and export data back out.
- SSRS: Work with business stakeholders to create and maintain reports in SSRS using relational & SSAS data sources.
- SQL Programming: Demonstrate advanced technical and programming skills.
- Replication: Design, implement, and maintain data warehouses/ODS systems using SQL Server Replication, SSIS, SSAS, and T-SQL scripting.
- On-Call Rotation: Participate in the on-call rotation (PagerDuty) for emergency coverage. When on-call, respond to text messages within 1 hour.
- Communication: Keep the team and customers informed about incident progress, changes, and outages.
- Travel: Willing to travel for assigned training and periodic company meetings. Travel duration can vary and last up to 5 business days.
- PostgreSQL Enthusiasm: Have some experience with PostgreSQL and a desire to dive deeper.
- Administrative Tasks: Enter time and expenses in ConnectWise, attend scheduled meetings, and complete training materials in a timely manner.
Employee Benefits:
- Medical Benefits: Comprehensive medical coverage (no dental or vision).
- 401(k) Match: 2% company match.
- Paid Time Off: Nine paid holidays each year and 120 hours of PTO per year.
- Training Opportunities: Extensive MS SQL and PostgreSQL training.
- Challenging Work: Exposure to diverse MS SQL Server environments with opportunities to advance your skillset.
If you're excited about this opportunity and our core values resonate with you, apply now and tell us why you'd be a great fit for SQLWatchmen!
This is a remote position.
Compensation: $100,000.00 - $130,000.00 per year
Our history starts back in 2001 in the middle of the dot-com bust. Our founder, Jim Murphy, started a technology company which included custom programming and Microsoft SQL Server work.
The company grew to a point where in 2008, we split the Microsoft SQL Server operations into a separate company and SQLWatchmen, Inc. was born.
In 2008, some of our clients were still in growth mode at the time and needed help scaling their business, with data being a key component of that. Other clients were shrinking and laying off but knew that they couldn’t lay off their last DBA without qualified people to take the reins.
Operations started in our garage. Well, being in TX, one can’t survive in a literal garage! So, Jim’s small 12’x12′ home office was our ‘garage’. Hey, low overhead was great! But eventually, we had to expand. We needed office space.
Even during the “great recession,” we were growing. Growth has since been healthy and steady. Jim bootstrapped the company himself; refusing outside money (Private Equity, VC). This means that he didn’t have to answer to outsiders who care only about profits. Jim has grown the company 25% to 45% annually, year over year.
We believe that if we hire great people and treat them well, then they will in-turn treat our customers well. Soft skills are as important as technical skills in order to work here. We are very cautious about who we hire knowing that a single person joining or leaving the team will shift the culture. Therefore, we ask for your patience as you move through our rigorous hiring process.
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