Senior SQL Server DBA

Are you looking for a forward focus environment where you are continually challenged, and the atmosphere is affirming? Do you want to be a part of a team where you are often out of your comfort zone, but you wake up excited to go to work each day? How about a place where people are growing because they desire change and growth is modeled and expected?

Premier Trailer Leasing is a 'USA Today Top Workplace' and one of the largest trailer leasing and rental companies in the nation, specializing in long-term leasing and short-term rental services for over-the-road vans, flatbeds, refrigerated equipment and chassis with an inventory of 70,000 trailers and a growing network of locations across the United States. At Premier you will find an environment where you are seen, heard and valued.

Join us and experience what it means to live a culture of C.A.R.E!

Premier Trailer Leasing is advancing its data architecture into a modern hybrid ecosystem. As our Senior SQL Server DBA, you will assume primary operational ownership of our SQL Server estate, hosted on Microsoft Azure virtual machines.

This is a senior, hands‑on ownership role for someone who enjoys SQL Server internals, query performance, Power Shell automation, reliability engineering, and database lifecycle management. You will inherit a stable, generally well‑maintained estate and have broad latitude to reduce operational friction, modernize database deployment practices, strengthen observability, and improve resilience.

As Premier’s broader data platform evolves, SQL Server will remain a vital part of the enterprise architecture. You will lead the continuing operation and improvement of this estate while helping prepare the relational data layer to integrate reliably with our future‑state platform.

• Estate & Performance Ownership: Drive database health, capacity planning, indexing strategy, query performance, storage management, and resource utilization across large and VLDB‑class SQL Server environments.
• VLDB Operations: Improve backup, restore, integrity‑check, maintenance, migration, and non-production refresh strategies for databases exceeding 1 TB, including a primary database approaching 4 TB.
• Power Shell & Pipeline Automation: Maintain, troubleshoot, and improve production Power Shell scripts used for database administration, maintenance automation, monitoring, and operational data movement.
• Database Lifecycle & Upgrades: Plan, test, and execute SQL Server version upgrades, patch management, database migrations, and server transitions across the estate.
• Azure VM & Infrastructure Coordination: Manage SQL Server configuration and performance considerations within Microsoft Azure virtual machines, including compute sizing, storage design, disk throughput, networking, availability, backup integration, and coordination with infrastructure and security teams.
• BC/DR & Reliability: Own business continuity and disaster recovery strategies, including backup, recovery, failover, and restoration workflows aligned with SLA requirements.
• Security & Access Governance: Manage privileged access, service accounts, database permissions, auditing, and SQL Server security configuration in partnership with infrastructure and security teams.
• Observability & Custom Tooling: Manage, evolve, and modernize SQL Server alerting and observability using proven community and open‑source solutions, including tools such as Erik Darling’s Performance Monitor and diagnostic scripts, dbatools, , and Ola Hallengren maintenance scripts.
• SDLC & CI/CD Modernization: Establish mature Git‑based version control, review, release, and rollback practices for database changes, and transition manual deployment processes into reliable automated…