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