Database Management Specialist

Company Overview

At 4A Consulting, we turn complexity into opportunity. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Baltimore, MD, we are a women-owned, boutique consulting firm specializing in delivering innovative, data-driven solutions to both the Federal Government and Fortune 500 clients. Our team blends deep industry knowledge with advanced technologies to design tailored strategies that drive measurable and sustainable outcomes. We pride ourselves on an agile, collaborative approach that helps organizations navigate challenges and seize emerging opportunities in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

At 4A, we don’t just deliver projects, we build trusted partnerships that empower our clients to lead with confidence in the digital age.

Position Overview

We are seeking a Database Management Specialist responsible for ensuring the reliability, security, performance, and availability of enterprise SQL Server environments supporting critical business operations. This role includes database administration, cloud infrastructure support, disaster recovery planning, performance optimization, and database modernization initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain enterprise Microsoft SQL Server environments supporting business-critical applications, ensuring high availability, optimal performance, and long-term scalability.
• Monitor database health, performance, storage utilization, and system availability while proactively identifying and resolving issues before they impact business operations.
• Design, implement, and maintain backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies that support business continuity objectives and minimize operational risk.
• Configure and support high-availability solutions including Always On Availability Groups, failover mechanisms, and Azure-based recovery services.
• Optimize database performance through query analysis, indexing strategies, configuration tuning, resource utilization monitoring, and performance diagnostics.
• Implement and maintain database security controls, encryption mechanisms, access management policies, and auditing capabilities that protect sensitive business and personal information.
• Support Azure-hosted SQL Server environments, including virtual machine administration, storage management, patching activities, monitoring configurations, and infrastructure optimization.
• Collaborate with application developers, architects, business analysts, and infrastructure teams to support new initiatives, troubleshoot issues, and improve overall platform performance.
• Assist with database migrations, upgrades, maintenance activities, and modernization efforts that support evolving business and technology requirements.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, recovery plans, and governance standards that support long-term database administration activities.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor 's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline. Equivalent professional experience may be considered.
• Seven (7) or more years of database administration experience supporting enterprise Microsoft SQL Server environments.
• Five (5) or more years of experience supporting large-scale production database systems within complex business or government environments.
• Demonstrated expertise administering SQL Server 2019 or newer versions, including installation, configuration, maintenance, monitoring, and performance optimization.
• Experience implementing and supporting high-availability and disaster recovery solutions, including backup strategies, recovery planning, and business continuity initiatives.
• Strong understanding of database security principles, encryption technologies, access controls, auditing requirements, and data protection best practices.
• Experience supporting cloud-hosted database environments, preferably within Microsoft Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) environments.
• Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex database performance issues involving application workloads, infrastructure dependencies, and resource utilization challenges.
• Strong communication and…