Senior Database Administrator

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 Originally posted on Himalayas