Senior Database Administrator
Position Overview
The Senior Database Administrator is a highly skilled technical role responsible for the performance, availability, security and reliability of enterprise database systems supporting critical business operations. This role includes Microsoft SQL Server database administration, performance monitoring and tuning, migrations, lifecycle management, high availability, disaster recovery and advanced troubleshooting. The Senior DBA will provide technical leadership, act as the final escalation point for complex database issues and collaborate across teams to architect and deliver scalable, secure and reliable database solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide technical leadership on database systems and solutions and act as the final technical escalation point for all database-related issues.
- Manage, maintain, implement and support Microsoft SQL Server databases in a high-availability environment hosted in the cloud (SQL on VMs), using Always-On Availability Groups, mirroring and replication.
- Plan and execute SQL Server upgrades,



migrations and lifecycle management initiatives.
- Perform database capacity planning, storage forecasting and resource utilization analysis.
- Conduct research, analysis, monitoring and profiling to improve database performance, functionality, recoverability and availability.
- Ensure data integrity, quality and security across all database systems.
- Participate in the Disaster Recovery Planning and Testing to manage and validate backup, restore and recovery strategies and perform regular recovery testing to ensure recoverability of business-critical databases.
- Architect and maintain databases for optimal performance and scalability.
- Manage database maintenance activities including index optimization, statistics maintenance and SQL Agent job management.
- Deploy and maintain database security controls and support security initiatives and audits.
- Cross-train peers and team members and pro

📌 Senior Database Administrator (Monterrey)
🏢 ProTrans International
📍 Monterrey