SharePoint Database Administrator

SharePoint Database Administrator

Location - Remote

Duration - Long term

Position - Part Time (0.75)

Position Requirements:
Seek a proactive and technically skilled SharePoint Database Administrator. This role is a critical liaison between end users and the IT department, responsible for planning, installing, configuring, maintaining, and securing all enterprise database systems for SharePoint On-Premise. The ideal candidate will possess skills to perform routine database operations, backups, data integrity, security compliance, and performance tuning.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Maintain, back up, and restore SQL SharePoint databases to ensure data integrity and availability.
• Monitor server health and troubleshoot issues at the server and database level.
• Optimize performance, storage, and security of databases, including regular checks and disaster recovery tests.
• Collaborate with application developers and system administrators for integrated operations.
• Document maintenance, incidents, and configuration changes as required.
• Utilize tools like Azure Portal, Power BI Report Server, SSMS, Splunk, and TSQL for managing and monitoring databases at a server level.
• Support database security compliance and address findings related to database impacts.
• Monitor disk and server usage, handle failover processes, and manage permissions.

Primary Responsibilities:

• The SharePoint Database Administrator (DBA) is a central role in the operation of the SharePoint Support team. To support best practices, this person must have excellent knowledge of SQL databases and a strong background working in Agile-based projects. The DBA will focus on databases and connections supporting Microsoft SharePoint.
• Supporting monthly SharePoint database patching activities including database stability checks.
• Performing database backup/restore of SQL SharePoint content databases to align with operations and maintenance processes.
• Provide server level troubleshooting of databases and monitoring of database health including disk usage, server usage, storage.
• Create basic T-SQL scripting to change parameters.
• Collaborate with application developers and system admins to support integrated services.
• Maintain database schemas, stored procedures, indexes, and triggers.
• Document all procedures, incidents, and changes in accordance with contract requirements.
• Install and configure database software, tools, and utilities.
• Perform regular database maintenance, backups, restores, and disaster recovery tests.
• Monitor performance, tune queries, and optimize storage.
• Maintain database security in compliance with federal standards.
• Ensure data availability, integrity, and redundancy across operational systems.
• Work with Product Owners to identify priorities, participate in Feature/Iteration Reviews, Backlog Refinement, and in team daily stand-up meetings.
• Support the Migration from SharePoint On-Premise to SharePoint Online.

Secondary Responsibilities:

• Must be able to support on-call duties over the weekend and have a flexible working schedule.
• Must be able to multitask and write grammatically correct email responses to customers within the government.
• Must interact with a cross-disciplinary team and navigate between government clients, partner contractors, and our internal team.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Experience in systems database, recovery, and/or systems software and support.
• Minimum of four (4) years of experience providing database administration for a large system.
• Experienceutilizing SAFe Agile and Scrum Methodologies
• Excellent customer communication skills
• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience with SharePoint Online or SharePoint 2019.
• Experience supporting federal government environments.
• Azure portal familiarity to view infrastructure resources
• Experience with Splunk monitoring and query building.
• Experience creating T-SQL scripts.
• Experience with SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).
• Prior SSMS application and SQL server experience.
• Database Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) certification.
• Prior experience with SQL Server
• Experience with using ShareGate.
• Experience with using Jira.