Database Administrator(South Carolina Residents Only) - Full Time(W2) Only

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Role : Database Administrator(South Carolina Residents Only) - Full Time(W2 Only)

Client : State of South Carolina(SCJB)

Work Type : Hybrid

Location : Columbia,South Carolina

Duration : 12 Months(Extendable)

Max Payrate : 65$ Per Hour

eSystems Inc. is a fast-growing Systems Integrator based in Princeton, New Jersey. We provide strategic IT solutions and services with primary practice areas in Java and Microsoft centric e-Business solutions, ERP solutions, Enterprise Application Integration, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence solutions.

Our clients include Fortune 500 corporations, government agencies, small and mid-sized local businesses, and non-profit organizations.

As an equal opportunity employer, eSystems complies with all applicable laws, rules and regulations preventing discrimination against job applicants based on: race, ethnicity, religious beliefs, gender, gender identity, age, veteran status, marital status, physical challenges, or any other relevant factor

THE JD and the required skillset are below. Please make sure that the suitable candidate has atleast 90% of the skillset mentioned

The South Carolina Judicial Branch (SCJB) seeks a highly skilled Database Administrator (DBA) to

support mission-critical judicial systems, statewide case management databases, data warehouse

platforms, and reporting environments.

This position will provide advanced database administration, performance tuning, security hardening,

disaster recovery planning, and cross-database standardization support for enterprise SQL Server

environments supporting:

Statewide Case Management Systems (CMS environments)

Judicial Data Warehouse (DW)

Public Index & Reporting Systems

Power BI and Interactive Data Dashboards

Cross-county reporting standardization initiatives

Integrated court and justice partner systems

The DBA will work closely with the Deputy Director of Applications, IT Applications Development

Manager, developers, data analysts, and infrastructure teams to ensure data integrity, high availability,

performance optimization, and compliance with statewide data governance initiatives.

Responsibilities:

Working on SQL Server (v 2016 )

Administer and maintain SQL Server instances across multiple judicial environments.

Manage contained users, authentication models, and database-level security.

Configure and monitor SQL Agent jobs, maintenance plans, and index strategies.

Implement and validate backup/restore procedures and disaster recovery plans.

Support high availability configurations (Always On, clustering where applicable).

Optimize large-scale tables supporting court case data.

Analyze and tune:

• Stored procedures
• Dynamic SQL
• Cross-database queries
• CTE-heavy workloads
• Index fragmentation and statistics
  
  

Review and optimize ETL loops across multiple CMS databases.

Reduce blocking, deadlocks, and long-running transactions.

Implement partitioning strategies where appropriate.

Assist with:

• Referential integrity enforcement
• Foreign key reconciliation
• Identity reseeding
• Data remediation & cleanup
  
  

Support statewide standardization of:

• County codes
• Circuit mappings
• Court type alignment
• Roster type consistency
  
  

Ensure alignment with the Chief Justice s data initiative and reporting aggregation standards.

Optimize fact/dimension loading processes

Support performance tuning for Power BI reporting back-end queries.

Assist with:

• Indexed views
• Aggregation tables
• Incremental load strategies
  
  

Collaborate on data quality validation routines.

Harden SQL Server instances against unauthorized access.

Review role-based security for judicial data.

Ensure compliance with:

• Judicial confidentiality standards
• CJIS considerations (where applicable)
  
  

Monitor audit logs and security events.

Support WAF/SQL visibility requirements for secure application traffic.

• Imperva or similar security appliances
  
  

Assist in scripting deployment pipelines for:

• Schema changes
• Stored procedure deployments
• Data migration scripts
  
  

Support version control integration.

Create reusable administrative scripts for:

• Multi-database updates
• Password rotation
• Security audits
• Cross-environment validation
  
  

Required Skills:

7 years of experience with SQL Database Administration & Operations

3 years of experience with Performance Tuning & Optimization

3 years of experience with Data Integrity & Governance Support

3 years of experience with Data Warehouse Architecture & Reporting Support

3 years of experience with Security & Compliance

3 years of experience with Automation & DevOps Support

Preferred/Nice to Have Skills:

Experience in judicial, government, or public sector environments

Power BI backend optimization

• NET application data access patterns
  
  

Always On Availability Groups

Azure DevOps

Experience cleaning legacy data structures across multiple counties or jurisdictions