SQL Database Administrator

Summary

We seek a highly experienced SQL Database Administrator to manage and maintain our Microsoft SQL Server corporate databases, ensuring data integrity, availability, security, and performance. This role is critical in supporting both on-premises and cloud database environments, with a strong focus on Azure technologies. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of SQL Server administration, performance tuning, enterprise-scale database support, and hands-on experience migrating databases to the Azure SQL Cloud and integrating with Azure Data Lake and Azure Data Factory.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain Microsoft SQL Server corporate databases, ensuring high availability, reliability, and data integrity.
• Set up, monitor, and validate database backups; support recovery strategies.
• Maintain and administer database security, including logins, users, and roles.
• Perform system tuning, performance monitoring, and proactive database maintenance.
• Profile, identify, and resolve database performance issues, including query and index optimization.
• Provide database capacity planning, forecasting, and growth management.
• Assist with quarterly patching of database cluster nodes and instances.
• Create and maintain database objects such as stored procedures, views, and triggers.
• Review and execute database deploy scripts as part of application release processes.
• Coordinate and execute database upgrades, migrations, and installation of supporting utilities.
• Provide SSRS report development and support.
• Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot SSIS packages.
• Contribute to architecture discussions, recommending platform design, upgrades, scalability, performance, and recoverability.
• Perform quarterly SOX audit tasks, including review of security, jobs, job history, and backup restores (CommVault).
• Refresh Stage and Test environments upon request.
• Work Jira tickets, including employee off-boarding database-related tasks.
• Support Azure database solutions, including Azure Data Lake and Azure Data Factory pipelines.
• Lead initiatives to migrate on-premise SQL databases to Azure SQL Cloud environments.
• Back up Azure BI Environment and assist with Azure Data Factory Pipelines.

Education & Experience Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Database Administration, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 8 years of hands-on experience as a SQL Database Administrator in an enterprise environment.
• Strong expertise in Microsoft SQL Server administration, performance tuning, backup/recovery, and security.
• Proven experience with Azure SQL Cloud, Azure Data Lake, and Azure Data Factory.
• Demonstrated experience in migrating large-scale on-premise SQL databases to Azure cloud.
• Familiarity with SOX audit compliance and database security best practices.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to handle complex database performance issues.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively across IT and business teams.
• Candidate must be self-motivated, determined, and make calculated decisions.

Nature's Sunshine is dedicated to being a Force of Nature that champions social and environmental wellness. We are focused on building a team of professionals with diverse backgrounds and experiences to become the natural supplement company of the future. By celebrating the individuality and unique perspectives of our workforce, we empower our employees to share the healing power of nature with more people around the world. And through our commitment to sustainable processes, renewable energy usage and waste reduction initiatives, we're devoted to preserving nature and its power for future generations.

We believe we are stronger together, and our ongoing commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging ensures that every employee is treated with fairness and respect. Because doing what's right-in the right way-is how we succeed as a company and a society.