Senior Database Administrator

Senior Database Administrator

Are you passionate about the chance to bring your experience to a world-class company that is market-leading for both content and technology? If yes, we are looking for you!

A Senior Database Administrator will be responsible for managing and optimizing SQL Server databases to ensure their reliability, availability, and performance. Here are the key aspects of the role:

About the Role

In this opportunity as a Senior Database Administrator, you will be responsible to:

• Database Management: Install, upgrade, and maintain SQL Server instances across multiple environments.
• Performance Tuning: Optimize database performance through index tuning, query optimization, and resource monitoring.
• Backup and Recovery: Design and implement robust backup strategies and disaster recovery processes.
• High Availability Solutions: Implement and manage high availability solutions such as Availability Groups, Failover Clustering, and Log Shipping.
• Monitoring: Enhance SQL monitoring process
• Troubleshooting: Diagnose and resolve complex database issues in production and non-production environments.
• Security Audits: Perform regular security audits and implement measures to protect sensitive data.
• Collaboration: Work closely with developers, IT staff, and stakeholders to improve application performance and solve database-related issues.
• Documentation: Accurately document work and communicate findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Support 24x7 Operations/Production SQL Server 2016+

About You

You’re a fit for the role if your background includes:

• A bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science, or Engineering.
• 5 years of hands-on experience managing SQL Server in various environments
• Proficiency in SQL Server versions 2016–2022, including installation, configuration, and migration
• Strong understanding of high availability and disaster recovery solutions
• Deep knowledge of SQL performance tuning, query optimization, and indexing strategies
• Experience with cloud-based SQL Server deployments (Azure SQL Database, AWS RDS, etc.)
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
• Experience in monitoring and acting on critical production issues (Datadog experience would be optimal)
• AWS Experience (specifically designing, implementing, and/or supporting RDS)
• Experience in Automation through scripting, SSIS package & SSRS Report development
• Excellent communication skills to interact with various teams and stakeholders
• Ability to manage multiple tasks or projects simultaneously

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What’s in it For You?

Join us to inform the way forward with the latest AI solutions and address real-world challenges in legal, tax, compliance, and news. Backed by our commitment to continuous learning and market-leading benefits, you’ll be prepared to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future. This includes:

• Industry-Leading Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, and hybrid model, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for inclusion, innovation, and customer-focus. Our eleven business resource groups nurture our culture of belonging across the diverse backgrounds and experiences represented across our global footprint.

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward. 

Accessibility 

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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