Senior Database Administrator

About the role

Blackstone businesses succeed through strong partnerships, a personalized approach and a commitment to exceptional performance with uncompromising integrity. These values help us recruit the right talent to join our rapidly expanding team of around the globe. It is important to us that each and every Spherion is not only eager to challenge themselves and knows how to get work done but is an awesome addition to our company culture.

What you'll do

• Own and operate MS-SQL Server across on-premises VMs, Azure IaaS SQL VMs, and Azure PaaS SQL (Azure SQL Database
• Own MS-SQL performance end to end — query optimization, execution plan analysis, indexing strategy, fragmentation remediation, TempDB and statistics management
• Manage MS-SQL high availability and disaster recovery — clustering (Always on Availability Groups / Failover Cluster Instances), failover and failback, geo-replication
• Lead patching, upgrades, and vulnerability remediation for MS-SQL Server instances and Azure PaaS SQL deployments
• Provision, configure, and troubleshoot Azure PaaS SQL resources (elastic pools, SQL VMs) — DTU/vCore sizing, throttling, connectivity, and auto-failover groups

What you need

• 8–12 yrs of experience
• SQL
• PostgreSQL
• SQL Server
• Azure
• PowerShell
• Terraform
• Any graduate

Good to have

• Python
• Databricks
• ITIL
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Root cause analysis