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Senior Database Administrator
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Fort Mill, York County, South Carolina, 29715, USA
Listed on 2026-09-14
Listing for:
AccruePartners
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-09-14
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Database Administrator, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, Azure, Data Engineering
Job Description & How to Apply Below
- A growing enterprise technology organization in the middle of a significant infrastructure and cloud modernization effort
- A systems and cloud organization responsible for modernizing a large, complex database environment while continuing to support critical production applications
- A collaborative technology team working across cloud architecture, infrastructure, applications, database engineering, project delivery, and external technology partners
- An environment moving away from manual, server-by-server administration toward standardized, source-controlled, automated database operations
- This will be a senior individual contributor and high-trust role with meaningful ownership of the organization's database environment
- A growing enterprise technology organization in the middle of a significant infrastructure and cloud modernization effort
- A systems and cloud organization responsible for modernizing a large, complex database environment while continuing to support critical production applications
- A collaborative technology team working across cloud architecture, infrastructure, applications, database engineering, project delivery, and external technology partners
- An environment moving away from manual, server-by-server administration toward standardized, source-controlled, automated database operations
- This will be a senior individual contributor and high-trust role with meaningful ownership of the organization's database environment
- Fort Mill, SC, Charlotte metro area
- On-site environment
- Direct exposure to the infrastructure and technology leaders driving the organization's cloud transformation
- Direct ownership of a large-scale enterprise SQL Server environment during a live Azure transformation
- The opportunity to become the primary internal technical authority for database administration and engineering
- A chance to modernize how database operations are managed, including monitoring, automation, source control, CI/CD, provisioning, and performance management
- Significant influence over database standards and operating practices for the next several years
- Exposure beyond traditional SQL Server administration, including Azure database services, PostgreSQL, modern database platforms, and cloud architecture
- The ability to partner closely with the Azure Cloud Architect and broader infrastructure organization as new environments and standards are established
- Competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and continued investment in professional development
- The organization is actively migrating a large SQL Server environment from traditional on-premises infrastructure into Azure as part of a broader cloud transformation
- This person will provide hands-on ownership of database health, performance, availability, maintenance, and continuity throughout that transition and beyond
- During the active migration, you will work alongside an external database engineering partner before assuming greater long-term internal ownership of the Azure SQL environment
- The opportunity extends well beyond maintaining databases and responding when something breaks
- You will proactively identify performance issues, evaluate execution plans, improve indexing strategies, optimize queries, modernize stored procedures, and address technical debt across the environment
- You will help move database administration toward repeatable and automated practices using source control, CI/CD, scripting, monitoring, and standardized deployment processes
- SQL Server remains the organization's core database platform, but this person will also help evaluate where PostgreSQL, Azure PaaS database offerings, or other modern database technologies may provide a better fit for specific workloads
- You will partner with the Azure Cloud Architect to ensure database provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and operational standards are incorporated into new environments from the beginning
- This is an opportunity to inherit a meaningful production environment while also having the runway to materially improve how it operates
- 5+ years of hands-on Microsoft SQL Server administration experience within production enterprise environments
- Strong SQL Server performance tuning expertise, including execution plan analysis, indexing strategy, Query Store, query optimization, and stored procedure optimization
- Ability to proactively identify database performance problems rather than relying solely on reactive…
Position Requirements
10+ Years
work experience
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