Database Administrator

This is a fully remote position only available in Peru, Colombia, Honduras, Costa Rica, Mexico, Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic.

About 10Pearls

We are 10Pearls, an award-winning digital development company, that helps businesses with product design, development, and technology acceleration. We have a culture of innovation, uniquely designed to help companies transform, digitalize and scale by levering digital technology.

Job Summary: 

The Database Administrator ensures the database environment is running efficiently on a day-to-day basis. This position also addresses database issues, strives for continuous improvement, and learns and implements new technologies.  

 Key Responsibilities: 

• Main DBA contact for off-hours maintenance. 

• Actions day-to-day tickets from end users, including but not limited to: Database restores, database decommissioning, and end-user assistance with large  transactions.  

• Research SQL Agent and Orchestration job failures. 

• Assists with basic SQL indexing.  

• Assists with initial setup of DBA team-maintained processes.  

• Provides support on DBA team standardizations.  

• Ensures databases are backed up and can be recovered. 

• Other duties as needed to support DBAs, Data Architects and Developers. 

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Technology, Database Management, or another related field, or commensurate on-the-job experience. 

• At least 3 years’ experience working as a Microsoft SQL Server for Database Administrator position 

• Experience running query analysis, performance tuning, and maintenance routines   

• Experience with creating and maintaining stored procedures 

• Experience with database clustering (FCI or Always On Availability Groups) 

• Familiar with basic Windows administration 

• Powershell or Python experience is required 
• Experience working in a cloud or virtual environment is a plus but not required 
• Coding experience is a plus but not required