Our client is looking for a SQL Server Database Administrator to join their team!
Top skills you need to have:
Required Skills
- 7+ years of experience with SQL Database Administration & Operations
- 3+ years of experience with Performance Tuning & Optimization
- 3+ years of experience with Data Integrity & Governance Support
- 3+ years of experience with Data Warehouse Architecture & Reporting Support
- 3+ years of experience with Security & Compliance
- 3+ years of experience with Automation & DevOps Support
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Title: SQL Server Database Administrator
Location: Columbia, South Carolina - Hybrid
Duration: long term Contract
Responsibilities:
- Working on SQL Server (v 2016+)
- Administer and maintain SQL Server instances across multiple judicial environments.
- Manage contained users, authentication models, and database-level security.
- Configure and monitor SQL Agent jobs, maintenance plans, and index strategies.
- Implement and validate backup/restore procedures and disaster recovery plans.
- Support high availability configurations (Always On, clustering where applicable).
- Optimize large-scale tables supporting court case data.
- Analyze and tune:
- Stored procedures
- Dynamic SQL
- Cross-database queries
- CTE-heavy workloads
- Index fragmentation and statistics
- Review and optimize ETL loops across multiple CMS databases.
- Reduce blocking, deadlocks, and long-running transactions.
- Implement partitioning strategies where appropriate.
- Assist with:
- Referential integrity enforcement
- Foreign key reconciliation
- Identity reseeding
- Data remediation & cleanup
- Support statewide standardization of:
- County codes
- Circuit mappings
- Court type alignment
- Roster type consistency
- Ensure alignment with the Chief Justice s data initiative and reporting aggregation standards.
- Optimize fact/dimension loading processes
- Support performance tuning for Power BI reporting back-end queries.
- Assist with:
- Indexed views
- Aggregation tables
- Incremental load strategies
- Collaborate on data quality validation routines.
- Harden SQL Server instances against unauthorized access.
- Review role-based security for judicial data.
- Ensure compliance with:
- Judicial confidentiality standards
- CJIS considerations (where applicable)
- Monitor audit logs and security events.
- Support WAF/SQL visibility requirements for secure application traffic.
- Imperva or similar security appliances
- Assist in scripting deployment pipelines for:
- Schema changes
- Stored procedure deployments
- Data migration scripts
- Support version control integration.
- Create reusable administrative scripts for:
- Multi-database updates
- Password rotation
- Security audits
- Cross-environment validation
Preferred Skills
- Experience in judicial, government, or public sector environments
- Power BI backend optimization
- .NET application data access patterns
- Always On Availability Groups
- Azure DevOps
- Experience cleaning legacy data structures across multiple counties or jurisdictions
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