Database Administrator

Position TypeFull timeType Of HireExperienced (relevant combo of work and education)Education DesiredBachelor of Computer EngineeringTravel Percentage0%Are you curious, motivated, and forward-thinking? At FIS you’ll have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology. Our talented people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and above all fun.About UsFIS® Private Capital Suite (formerly Investran) automates reporting and accounting processes for the private equity industry. Through our unique combination of technology and services, we offer a comprehensive platform for fund and partnership accounting, relationship management, portfolio management, performance measurement, business intelligence and data management.We are seeking a specialized database administrator (DBA) for our site reliability engineering (SRE) team, with a strong focus on SQL Server monitoring, tuning, and operational excellence. This role bridges database administration, observability engineering, and reliability practices. You will own the performance, availability, and scalability of our SQL Server environments, ensuring they meet demanding service-level objectives (SLOs).What You Will Be DoingDesign, build, and maintain SQL Server observability systems (monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing)Implement proactive performance tuning and reliability improvementsAutomate routine database operational tasks to reduce toilCollaborate with development teams to improve query performance and schema designConduct root cause analyses on database-related incidents and drive lasting improvementsMaintain and optimize SQL Server infrastructure across on-prem and/or cloud environmentsParticipate in on-call rotation for critical database systemsDocument and share best practices for SQL Server reliability and operationsWhat You Bring3+ years of experience in Database Administration, Database Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or related fieldDeep expertise in Microsoft SQL Server administration, tuning, and optimizationStrong understanding of query plans, indexing strategies, and locking mechanismsProficient with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, SQL Sentry, or Redgate SQL MonitorSkilled in performance analysis at both the database and operating system levelsNice to have experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, or similar)Added bonus if youExperience with SQL MIScripting skills (PowerShell, Python, Bash)Solid understanding of high availability, replication, and disaster recovery strategies for SQL ServerCloud database experience (AWS RDS/Azure SQL/Google Cloud SQL)Familiarity with containerized database deployment (Kubernetes, Docker)Exposure to NoSQL systems (MongoDB, Redis)Chaos engineering or fault-injection testing on database systemsWhat We Offer YouA work environment built on collaboration, flexibility and respectCompetitive salary and attractive range of benefits designed to help support your lifestyle and wellbeing (including private healthcare, 27 days of vacation, work from home - 2 days a week, etc.)Varied and challenging work to help you grow your technical skillsetPrivacy StatementFIS is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all personal information that we process in order to provide services to our clients. For specific information on how FIS protects personal information online, please see the Online Privacy Notice.Sourcing ModelRecruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.#pridepass