Job Title: Senior DBA Consultant
Location(s): Lincoln, NE
Location:- Onsite preferred in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
- May include some remote support responsibilities.
- On-call rotation required (nights/weekends).
Experience Level:- Senior DBA with the ability to work independently.
- Strong troubleshooting and production support background.
- Experience managing enterprise database environments.
Core Responsibilities:- Administer, maintain, secure, and optimize database environments.
- Independently resolve performance issues, job failures, space issues, login/connectivity problems, and database inconsistencies.
- Monitor database health, availability, and integrity.
- Support high-availability and disaster recovery configurations.
- Manage incidents, service requests, and operational tickets.
- Recommend automation and modernization opportunities, including AI-driven improvements.
- Collaborate with application teams during troubleshooting and upgrades.
Required Technical Skills:- Microsoft SQL Server (2012-2023).
- SQL Server Administration.
- T-SQL development (queries, stored procedures, triggers).
- Backup and Restore.
- Performance Tuning and Query Optimization.
- Database Tuning and Index Optimization.
- SQL Server DMVs and SQL Traces.
- High Availability technologies:
- Clustering
- Always On Availability Groups
- Replication
- Mirroring
- PowerShell Scripting.
- Database Security and Access Control.
- Database Schema Management.
- Ticket/Incident Management.
- SSRS, SSAS, SSIS Installation and Configuration.
Preferred Skills:- Oracle Database Administration.
- Oracle Exadata.
- MariaDB.
- Application support and upgrade experience.
- Discovery and assessment engagements.
- Idera monitoring tools.
- SQL/Oracle Licensing.
- Development background.
- Infrastructure migrations.
- Public cloud exposure.
Key Keywords:- SQL Server DBA
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Oracle DBA
- Exadata
- MariaDB
- T-SQL
- Performance Tuning
- Query Optimization
- High Availability
- Always On
- Clustering
- Replication
- SSIS
- SSRS
- SSAS
- PowerShell
- Database Security
- Backup & Recovery
- Incident Management
- Managed Services
Best Match Profile:A Senior Database Administrator with 8+ years of SQL Server administration experience, strong production support and performance tuning expertise, hands-on HA/DR implementation experience, and exposure to Oracle/Exadata environments.
