Staff Database Administrator

Responsibilities

• Own the day-to-day administration, maintenance, monitoring, patching, and health of SQL Server environments across production, staging, and development.
• Drive database performance optimization through query tuning, execution plan analysis, index design, statistics management, and wait statistics analysis.
• Design, implement, and operate high-availability solutions, including SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, log shipping, and failover procedures.
• Own backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies, including point-in-time recovery, log chain management, recovery validation, and regular DR failover testing.
• Partner with application development teams to manage schema migrations and database changes while maintaining data integrity across multi-tenant environments.
• Define and own the long-term SQL Server technology roadmap, including evaluating cloud database options such as Azure SQL and AWS RDS where appropriate.
• Lead database capacity planning and forecasting across storage, IOPS, compute, and database growth requirements.
• Partner with Security, AWS Cloud, and DevOps teams on database security, access controls, encryption, monitoring, and CI/CD-based database deployments, while serving as a primary escalation point for critical database incidents and participating in the on-call rotation.

Requirements

• 6 or more years of hands-on SQL Server DBA experience in production enterprise environments, with demonstrated ownership at a senior or principal level
• Deep expertise in SQL Server performance tuning: execution plans, query rewrites, index design, statistics management, and wait type analysis
• Proven experience designing and operating SQL Server high availability solutions, specifically Always On Availability Groups
• Solid understanding of SQL Server backup and recovery architectures, including point-in-time recovery, log chain management, and DR failover testing
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in written English with a distributed team across US and India time zones

Preferred

• Python scripting experience for database automation or monitoring integrations
• Familiarity with CMMC 2.0, FedRAMP, or other compliance frameworks that intersect with database security controls
• Previous experience in an MSP, SaaS, or IT management software company.

Position Summary

We are looking for a Staff Database Administrator to own and evolve our SQL Server database infrastructure across production and non-production environments. This senior individual contributor role within the Infrastructure and Operations team will be responsible for database availability, performance, security, disaster recovery, and long-term architectural direction. The role will support platforms including Autotask, Kaseya VSA, and our broader multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure, while serving as the primary escalation point for critical database incidents.

Required Qualifications

• Experience supporting multi-tenant SaaS platforms at scale, including schema versioning, tenant isolation, and database-per-tenant or shared-schema architectures
• Strong scripting ability in T-SQL and PowerShell for automation of routine DBA tasks, alerting, and maintenance
• Familiarity with cloud-hosted SQL environments including Azure SQL or AWS RDS is a meaningful advantage for this role
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Additional information

Kaseya provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, age, ancestry, gender, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.