Infrastructure, Senior Database Administrator

Job Description

• KBRA Holdings, LLC. is seeking a Database Administrator to join our Infrastructure Team. The Database Engineering team is focused on supporting internal engineering and analytical teams by creating systems & services and providing guidance to help them reach their operational goals. • The organization is transforming into a model where small, empowered teams own the things they build from inception through production. The DBA team in addition to supporting and maintaining legacy infrastructure, will also work to provide resources to these teams to enable them to build & deploy scalable, observable, reliable, and secure applications. • The role encompasses a wide range of responsibilities and will have an impact across the organization. It will require building relationships with engineers as well as business users and all changes will have to be made while considering their impact on multiple products with active users. • This is a unique opportunity for someone who is looking to grow into a more strategic role while supporting and building KBRA’s database environment; someone who is not happy with the status quo and always looking for ways to use emerging technologies to solve business problems. We are looking for someone who is highly motivated and a self-starter; someone who loves new challenges and likes working in an agile environment.

Qualifications

• MS SQL Server administration experience required • Experience in Version Upgrades, Database Instance Consolidations, and migrations • Experience with Performance Tuning and Optimization (PTO), using native and 3rd party monitoring and troubleshooting tools • Experience with backups, restores and recovery models • Demonstrated understanding of complex SQL, stored procedures, database functions, SSIS and ANSI and T-SQL queries and scripts. • Knowledge of High Availability (HA), Always on Availability Groups, MS SQL Clustering and Disaster Recovery (DR) options for SQL Server • Demonstrated knowledge of Data Security and data protection best practices • Experience with implementing and migrating to NoSQL technologies • Writing CI/CD pipelines -- Azure DevOps and/or GitLab preferred • Linux Operating System experience (nice to have) • Managing database environments regardless of its location, on-prem/cloud • Exposure to cloud architecture and Agile development methodologies • Experience working with container-based applications leveraging Docker swarm/Kubernetes • Building & maintaining systems using Infrastructure as Code • Experience with Python & PowerShell • Experience with MariaDB, MongoDB, Snowflake, Aerospike, Postgres etc. (nice to have) • Exposure to Azure SQL & AWS RDS and other cloud/SaaS technologies in production

Benefits

• Competitive benefits and paid time off • Paid family and disability leave • 401(k) plan, including employer match (100% vested) • Educational and professional development financial assistance • Employee referral bonus program • Cell phone reimbursement