Job Details

Job Title: Database Administrator (DBA)
Duration: 12 Months Contract
Location: Charlotte, NC 28202
Hybrid role - 2 to 3 days onsite/week

Summary:
Manages and maintains SQL Server database environments for optimal performance, availability, and security.

Responsibilities:
SQL Server Internals

• Deep understanding of how SQL Server processes queries, manages memory, and handles I/O.
• Familiarity with execution plans, query processor architecture, and storage engine behavior.

• Ability to analyze and rewrite inefficient queries.
• Expertise in indexing strategies, including clustered, non-clustered, filtered, and columnstore indexes.
• Knowledge of INCLUDE columns and their impact on query performance.

• Understanding how SQL Server uses statistics for query planning.
• Experience with updating, creating, and managing statistics to improve estimator accuracy.

• Proficiency in diagnosing blocking, deadlocks, and transaction isolation levels.
• Ability to tune workloads for high concurrency without sacrificing performance.
• Experience in dealing with SQL Server Version change issues, particularly query performance.
• Experience in AlwaysON and other replication technologies.