IT-Data Base Admin

Position Title: SQL Database Administrator 2

Position

Reports to:

Director of Infrastructure & Technology Operations (ITO)

Hybrid: (2) Days in office / (3) days remote

SQL Database Administrator 2 serves as a technical resource for Quadax's Microsoft SQL Server platforms and related data services. Responsible for the design, administration, security, performance, availability, and recoverability of the Company's database environments supporting mission-critical healthcare revenue cycle management applications and third-party vendor solutions.

This role, as part of ITO, partners closely with Application Development, Dev Ops, Security, and business stakeholders to ensure highly available, secure, scalable, and well-governed database services. Serves as the primary escalation point for complex database issues, leads database modernization initiatives, and drives continuous improvement through automation, standardization, and operational excellence.

All activities will be performed in accordance with established IT governance, security, compliance, and Change Management policies.

• Administration, configuration, maintenance, patching, upgrade, and lifecycle management of enterprise Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL environments.
• Design, implement, and support High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HA/DR) solutions including Windows and SQL Server Failover Clustering, replication, and backup/recovery architectures.
• Enforce SQL Server standards, operational procedures, and platform governance.
• Evaluate emerging SQL Server and Azure database technologies and develop strategic recommendations for adoption.
• Participate in infrastructure modernization initiatives, migrations, server consolidations, and cloud integration projects.

• Identifies SQL performance tuning and optimization opportunities across databases, queries, storage, memory, and compute resources.
• Analyze execution plans, indexing strategies, blocking, deadlocks, waits, and resource consumption to identify and resolve system bottlenecks.
• Develop proactive capacity planning processes and forecast future database growth and infrastructure requirements.
• Monitor key performance indicators and provide actionable recommendations to leadership.
• Responsible for SQL landscape in Azure and treating as an extension of on-prem infrastructure.

• Own and maintain database recovery strategies, documentation, testing procedures, and operational runbooks.
• Performs periodic recovery and disaster recovery exercises to validate recovery objectives and ensure operational readiness.
• Ensure SQL environments meet defined Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO).
• Participate in incident response activities and lead database recovery efforts during major outages.

• Collaborate with App/Dev teams on physical and logical database design, schema optimization, indexing strategies, stored procedures, triggers, and query development.
• Provide technical guidance for various SQL Server technologies.
• Participate in application architecture reviews to ensure scalability, performance, security, and supportability.

• Administer database security in accordance with industry’s best practices and organizational security requirements.
• Manage authentication, authorization, encryption, auditing, certificates, service accounts, and Kerberos delegation.
• Support security reviews, vulnerability remediation efforts, compliance audits, and risk assessments.
• Maintain least privilege access controls and database security standards.

• Develop and maintain Power Shell and automation solutions to reduce…