{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"1df6045b3d1a0e2398e6267a","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/1df6045b3d1a0e2398e6267a","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/1df6045b3d1a0e2398e6267a","title":"SQL Server Cloud Database Lead","description":"About Peraton\n\nPeraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.\n\nAbout The Role\n\nPeraton is seeking a Senior Microsoft SQL Server Database Lead to provide advanced technical expertise and leadership in support of a large government agency. This role is responsible for the design, implementation, maintenance, and support of mission‑critical database environments hosted on both AWS EC2 and Amazon RDS. The Senior DBA will serve as a technical leader within the team, provide mentorship to junior staff, consultations with customer stakeholders (application teams, partners, end users, ensure adherence to security and compliance standards, and support the program’s operational, performance, and availability objectives.\n\nLocation: Remote\n\nShift Schedule: 8am – 5pm Eastern Standard Time (EST). This position will participate in 24x7 on-call rotations for the production environment.\n\nWhat You Will do:\n\nLead the planning, installation, configuration, and optimization of Microsoft SQL Server environments in AWS cloud-hosted infrastructures.\nArchitect and implement high availability and disaster recovery solutions, including Always On Availability Groups, Windows Failover Clustering, replication, and log shipping.\nContinually seek ways to fully automate database functions, ability to provide data migration solutions, and facilitate innovation conversations.\nWork with cross functional teams to provide solutions to customers, application teams, with the ability to present executive level value and outcomes.\nProvide technical leadership to the DBA team, including mentoring, reviewing technical deliverables, and reinforcing best practices.\nDevelop, implement, and maintain database security controls and auditing solutions in accordance with CIS, SCSEM, and federal compliance requirements.\nManage vulnerability remediation activities by analyzing NESSUS scan results, applying corrective actions, and documenting compliance.\nImplement and manage database encryption and key rotation using SQL Server TDE, TLS, and AWS KMS.\nDirect backup, restore, and disaster recovery processes; perform verification and testing of all backup strategies.\nConduct performance analysis, capacity planning, and proactive monitoring utilizing Datadog and other monitoring tools.\nOversee and coordinate database patching, upgrades, maintenance windows, and certificate management.\nConduct advanced query tuning and execution plan analysis for application performance optimization.\nSupport CI/CD pipelines by integrating database deployments with GitLab and Liquibase.\nAutomate operational tasks using PowerShell, AWS CLI, or Python (monitoring, patching, deployment, maintenance).\nEnsure adherence to standardized procedures, operational runbooks, and change management protocols.\nCollaborate with application, infrastructure, and security teams to support business requirements, resolve issues, and ensure database reliability.\nParticipate in technical design reviews and provide architectural guidance for database-related components.\nLead the resolution of complex incidents and problems, perform root-cause analysis, and implement long‑term corrective measures.\nEngage subject matter experts or vendor support as needed for escalated issues.\nReview, approve, and implement database change requests in alignment with program policies and best practices.\nMaintain comprehensive documentation of database configurations, processes, standards, and operational procedures.\nQualifications\n\nBasic Qualifications:\n\nMust be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust level clearance.\nBachelor’s degree and 8 years of relevant experience, or a High School Diploma or equivalent and 12 years of experience\nMinimum 7 years of production Microsoft SQL Server DBA experience supporting enterprise-scale environments.\nExperience with SQL Server 2019/2022 in virtualized and high‑availability configurations.\nAdvanced knowledge of Always On Availability Groups, replication, log shipping, SQL Agent jobs, maintenance plans, and Ola Hallengren maintenance frameworks.\nExperience with AWS RDS databases PostgreSQL, Oracle, and Redshift.\nExperience with SQL Server performance tuning using execution plans, DMVs, extended events, and wait statistics.\nStrong understanding of AWS VPC networking concepts (subnets, routing, security groups) as they relate to database deployments.\nExperience with AWS cloud services, including:\nAmazon EC2 for SQL Server instances\nAmazon RDS for SQL Server\nAWS Backup\nAWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) for database access controls\nAWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Systems Manager, and Parameter Store\nAWS KMS for encryption and key management\nStrong understanding of Windows Server, Active Directory and Group Managed Service Accounts.\nStrong PowerShell scripting skills for automation and administration.\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\n\nStrong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present information to technical and non‑technical audiences, including leadership.\nExperience working effectively in a remote environment and collaborating across distributed teams.\nExperience with Transact‑SQL development and scripting.\nDetails\n\nTarget Salary Range: $104,000 - $166,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.\n\nBenefits Statement: Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.\n\nApplication Statements: The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application, you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview, as well as participate in a process to verify your identity. Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools of any kind during Peraton interviews is strictly prohibited unless the candidate has obtained prior written authorization. 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The Senior DBA will serve as a technical leader within the team, provide mentorship to junior staff, consultations with customer stakeholders (application teams, partners, end users, ensure adherence to security and compliance standards, and support the program’s operational, performance, and availability objectives.\n\nLocation: Remote\n\nShift Schedule: 8am – 5pm Eastern Standard Time (EST). This position will participate in 24x7 on-call rotations for the production environment.\n\nWhat You Will do:\n\nLead the planning, installation, configuration, and optimization of Microsoft SQL Server environments in AWS cloud-hosted infrastructures.\nArchitect and implement high availability and disaster recovery solutions, including Always On Availability Groups, Windows Failover Clustering, replication, and log shipping.\nContinually seek ways to fully automate database functions, ability to provide data migration solutions, and facilitate innovation conversations.\nWork with cross functional teams to provide solutions to customers, application teams, with the ability to present executive level value and outcomes.\nProvide technical leadership to the DBA team, including mentoring, reviewing technical deliverables, and reinforcing best practices.\nDevelop, implement, and maintain database security controls and auditing solutions in accordance with CIS, SCSEM, and federal compliance requirements.\nManage vulnerability remediation activities by analyzing NESSUS scan results, applying corrective actions, and documenting compliance.\nImplement and manage database encryption and key rotation using SQL Server TDE, TLS, and AWS KMS.\nDirect backup, restore, and disaster recovery processes; perform verification and testing of all backup strategies.\nConduct performance analysis, capacity planning, and proactive monitoring utilizing Datadog and other monitoring tools.\nOversee and coordinate database patching, upgrades, maintenance windows, and certificate management.\nConduct advanced query tuning and execution plan analysis for application performance optimization.\nSupport CI/CD pipelines by integrating database deployments with GitLab and Liquibase.\nAutomate operational tasks using PowerShell, AWS CLI, or Python (monitoring, patching, deployment, maintenance).\nEnsure adherence to standardized procedures, operational runbooks, and change management protocols.\nCollaborate with application, infrastructure, and security teams to support business requirements, resolve issues, and ensure database reliability.\nParticipate in technical design reviews and provide architectural guidance for database-related components.\nLead the resolution of complex incidents and problems, perform root-cause analysis, and implement long‑term corrective measures.\nEngage subject matter experts or vendor support as needed for escalated issues.\nReview, approve, and implement database change requests in alignment with program policies and best practices.\nMaintain comprehensive documentation of database configurations, processes, standards, and operational procedures.\nQualifications\n\nBasic Qualifications:\n\nMust be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust level clearance.\nBachelor’s degree and 8 years of relevant experience, or a High School Diploma or equivalent and 12 years of experience\nMinimum 7 years of production Microsoft SQL Server DBA experience supporting enterprise-scale environments.\nExperience with SQL Server 2019/2022 in virtualized and high‑availability configurations.\nAdvanced knowledge of Always On Availability Groups, replication, log shipping, SQL Agent jobs, maintenance plans, and Ola Hallengren maintenance frameworks.\nExperience with AWS RDS databases PostgreSQL, Oracle, and Redshift.\nExperience with SQL Server performance tuning using execution plans, DMVs, extended events, and wait statistics.\nStrong understanding of AWS VPC networking concepts (subnets, routing, security groups) as they relate to database deployments.\nExperience with AWS cloud services, including:\nAmazon EC2 for SQL Server instances\nAmazon RDS for SQL Server\nAWS Backup\nAWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) for database access controls\nAWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Systems Manager, and Parameter Store\nAWS KMS for encryption and key management\nStrong understanding of Windows Server, Active Directory and Group Managed Service Accounts.\nStrong PowerShell scripting skills for automation and administration.\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\n\nStrong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present information to technical and non‑technical audiences, including leadership.\nExperience working effectively in a remote environment and collaborating across distributed teams.\nExperience with Transact‑SQL development and scripting.\nDetails\n\nTarget Salary Range: $104,000 - $166,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.\n\nBenefits Statement: Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.\n\nApplication Statements: The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application, you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview, as well as participate in a process to verify your identity. Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools of any kind during Peraton interviews is strictly prohibited unless the candidate has obtained prior written authorization. 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