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

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