Location: Peru – Nationwide | Preference for Trujillo or Arequipa

We are looking for a Microsoft SQL Server Database Administrator to join our team and support business-critical database environments across on-premises and cloud platforms .

This role is adecuado for a DBA with strong hands‑on experience in Microsoft SQL Server , cloud database services, performance optimization, security, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, and automation, who is comfortable collaborating with technical teams and stakeholders in an international environment.

What you’ll do

- Administering, monitoring, maintaining, and supporting Microsoft SQL Server in on-premises and cloud environments.
- Managing Azure SQL, SQL Server on Azure VMs, and AWS RDS for SQL Server.
- Installing, configuring, patching, and upgrading SQL Server instances.
- Managing users, roles, permissions, service accounts, security baselines, and encryption controls.
- Monitoring and optimizing queries, indexes, execution plans, statistics, CPU, memory, storage, and transaction logs.
- Performing integrity checks, statistics updates, index maintenance, purging, and other routine DBA activities.
- Implementing and validating backup, restore, and recovery strategies, including periodic restoration testing.
- Supporting High Availability, clustering, replication, failover, and SQL Server Always On environments.
- Supporting AWS RDS for SQL Server Multi‑AZ configurations when applicable.
- Participating in Disaster Recovery exercises and maintaining recovery procedures and documentation.
- Managing privileged DBA credentials through CyberArk or equivalent Privileged Access Management solutions.




- Participating in vulnerability assessments, security patching, and remediation activities.
- Troubleshooting performance, connectivity, availability, blocking, locking, and data integrity issues.
- Performing proactive capacity planning and database growth monitoring.
- Supporting database refreshes, data purges, extractions, migrations, and other data movement activities.
- Planning and executing on‑premises and cloud migrations and upgrades, minimizing downtime and protecting data integrity.
- Providing operational support for SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and Azure Data Factory ETL processes.
- Developing and maintaining T‑SQL and PowerShell scripts to automate routine DBA activities.
- Participating in Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD initiatives related to database environments.
- Using GitHub and/or Bitbucket for version control of scripts and configurations.
- Participating in Incident, Problem, Change, Security, and Disaster Recovery Management processes.
- Collaborating with development teams on database design, stress testing, and application/database performance tuning.
- Participating in on‑call support rotations outside regular business hours when required.

What we’re looking for

- 3–5+ years of professional database administration experience,



with relevant hands‑on Microsoft SQL Server expertise.
- Experience administering SQL Server in production environments.
- Strong knowledge of T‑SQL, SQL Server administration, configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
- Experience with performance tuning, indexes, execution plans, and query optimization.
- Experience with backup, restore, recovery, and database integrity checks.
- Practical knowledge of SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery.
- Knowledge of Windows Server and Active Directory.
- Experience managing database users, roles, permissions, authentication, security baselines, and encryption.
- Experience performing SQL Server patching and upgrades.
- Operational knowledge of AWS RDS for SQL Server and/or Azure SQL.
- Knowledge of SSIS and/or Azure Data Factory.
- Experience using PowerShell for scripting and automation.
- Experience or practical knowledge of CyberArk or similar Privileged Access Management solutions.
- Knowledge of database‑related networking concepts, including DNS, ports, firewalls, and SSL/TLS.
- Experience with ticketing and Change Management tools such as ServiceNow, Jira, or equivalent platforms.
- Familiarity with GitHub and/or Bitbucket.
- Advanced spoken and written English is mandatory, with the ability to participate in technical meetings, manage incidents, document solutions, and communicate daily with US‑based teams and stakeholders.

Nice to have

- Experience with SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, AWS EC2, Azure VMs, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Datadog, AWS CloudWatch or similar enterprise monitoring plat

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