Site Reliability Engineer (SQL Server DBA)

Location: Remote - WFH, Canada

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Data Center Engineering team at Level 3. This role requires a technically strong and operationally mature engineer who will help design, scale, and maintain the reliability of our physical and virtual data center infrastructure. As a Level 3 SRE, you will be a technical leader responsible for ensuring system uptime, optimizing capacity and performance, and contributing to long-term infrastructure resiliency.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and support SQL Server Always On Availability Groups across on-prem and Azure environments.

• Install, configure, and maintain SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances (FCI).

• Administer Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC), quorum, and node health.

• Plan and execute failover testing, DR drills, and recovery validation.

• Perform SQL Server installation, upgrades, patching, and migrations.

• Manage backup, restore, and disaster recovery strategies.

• Monitor and tune database performance (indexing, query optimization, waits).

• Troubleshoot replication, latency, blocking, and cluster-related issues.

• Configure and manage AG listeners, networking, DNS, and storage.

• Ensure database security, auditing, and compliance.

• Automate DBA tasks using T-SQL, PowerShell, and SQL Agent.

• Support application deployments and schema changes.

• Provide 24×7 production support for mission-critical systems.

• Maintain runbooks, standards, and operational documentation.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field.

• 4-7 years of experience in database administration and operations.

• Experience participating in or leading incident response and postmortem analysis processes.

• Previous exposure to hybrid environments integrating on-premise data centers with public or private cloud platforms is desirable.

• 4+ years of experience with SQL Server Database.

• 4+ Years of experience with any other RDBMS Database knowledge (oracle, PostgreSQL).

Expertise

• Hands-on experience with backup, recovery, and HA solutions.

• Strong proficiency in Linux and Debian environments.

• Proficiency in scripting for database automation.

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills.

• Strong communication skills for cross-team collaboration.

• Understanding of Oracle and MySQL databases is a plus, but not mandatory

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