SQL DBA II

VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!,

SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, Golf Now and Golf Pass.

In this Level 2 role, you’ll administer and troubleshoot SQL Server environments while also supporting relational database platforms such as MySQL and PostgreSQL. You’ll partner closely with Software Development, Data Engineering, QA, Infrastructure, and other technology teams to strengthen database operations through proactive monitoring, performance optimization, automation, observability, and resilient backup and disaster-recovery practices.

Success in this role means maintaining highly available database platforms, identifying and mitigating operational risks, resolving complex production issues, and continuously improving the tools and practices that support reliable database engineering.

Our database platforms support critical applications and workflows across Versant. Your work will directly contribute to the stability, scalability, security, and recoverability of the systems our teams rely on to operate effectively.

This is a remote role based in Florida. While the position is primarily remote, employees should expect opportunities for in-person collaboration, team meetings, or company events approximately 10% of the time.

• Own the health and reliability of SQL Server environments across Production, Staging, and Development, including SQL Server hosted on AWS RDS, maintaining availability in accordance with established SLAs, SLOs, RTOs, and RPOs.
• Support and administer additional relational database platforms
  , including MySQL and PostgreSQL, as needed across cloud and on-premises environments, applying consistent standards for reliability, security, performance, backup, and recovery.
• Monitor and optimize database performance and capacity using execution plans, Query Store, wait statistics, Extended Events, indexing analysis, observability platforms, and other diagnostic tools to proactively identify and resolve issues.
• Strengthen database security and resilience by administering access and permissions using least-privilege practices and designing, implementing, testing, and validating backup, restore, high-availability, and disaster-recovery strategies.
• Partner with engineering teams throughout the development lifecycle to improve T‑SQL, query and schema design, indexing, CI/CD workflows, automated deployments, data migrations, integrations, and post-deployment validation.
• Automate repeatable database operations and improve production support using infrastructure-as-code, Power Shell, and other scripting technologies while enhancing monitoring, alerting, dashboards, incident response, root‑cause analysis, and technical documentation.

• 5+ years of hands‑on SQL Server transactional database administration experience, including production database environments.
• Strong SQL Server administration expertise across configuration, security, permissions, maintenance, backups, restores, troubleshooting, and operational support.
• Strong experience with AWS database and infrastructure services, particularly RDS, Secrets Manager, S3, Cloud Watch, and related technologies.
• Advanced SQL Server performance analysis and…