Senior Database Administrator

About this role

Job Title: Senior Database Administrator – SQL Server, Snowflake & Azure Location: Colombia - Fully Remote Type of Contract: Full-Time Salary Range: Market Rates Language Requirements: Above Average English We are seeking a skilled Senior Database Administrator with strong experience in SQL Server, Snowflake, and Azure cloud environments to join our growing Infrastructure team. You will play a key role in database administration, platform stability, and performance optimization across large-scale enterprise systems. Your work will directly impact system reliability, scalability, and overall data platform performance. Key Responsibilities

Administer, maintain, and optimize SQL Server environments across production and non-production systems in Azure

Monitor and improve database performance through query tuning, execution plan analysis, indexing strategies, and troubleshooting locks, blocking, and wait statistics

Manage backup and restore processes, replication, high availability, and disaster recovery configurations

Administer and optimize Snowflake environments, including warehouse sizing, access controls, roles, permissions, and platform performance

Support integrations with Azure services, external stages, blob storage, and automation workflows related to database operations

Collaborate with Infrastructure, DevOps, and Data teams on deployments, migrations, incident response, and continuous platform improvements

Contribute to database administration best practices, documentation, and governance standards

Must-Have Qualifications

7+ years of experience in database administration and database performance optimization

Strong hands-on expertise in Microsoft SQL Server, including administration, tuning, replication, backup and recovery, and HA/DR

Strong experience with Snowflake administration, architecture, and performance tuning

Hands-on experience working with Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure

Proven ability to troubleshoot complex database issues in large-scale or high-volume environments

Strong understanding of concurrency, transactions, indexing, and database reliability best practices

Above Average English communication skills with the ability to collaborate across technical teams

Preferred Qualifications

Experience supporting enterprise or retail platforms with high transaction volumes

Background in database modernization, migration, or cloud transformation initiatives

Familiarity with scripting or automation using PowerShell or Python

Exposure to DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines

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