Senior Database Engineer (Remote)
full-time•Tennessee
About this role
This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Senior Database Engineer - REMOTE. In this role, you will be playing a crucial part in ensuring the reliability, performance, and automation of SQL Server platforms in both on-premises and cloud-integrated environments. Your collaboration with various teams will enhance operational processes and support enterprise-critical database workloads, directly impacting the efficiency and effectiveness of our data management practices.
\n- Own and operate enterprise SQL Server environments across production and non-production tiers.
- Standardize and automate database operational workflows, including script execution intake, monitoring, and deployment processes.
- Participate in patching, deployment, and release management activities to ensure platform security and stability.
- Provide on-call and incident response support for mission-critical database systems.
- Diagnose and resolve complex SQL Server performance issues including blocking, deadlocks, replication latency, and high-write workloads.
- Analyze and tune slow-running queries and reports.
- Lead index analysis, consolidation, and cleanup initiatives to reduce write overhead and improve performance.
- Gather and maintain configuration data across all SQL Server instances, including versioning, hardware, storage, network, and security settings.
- Design and implement automation to reduce manual DBE effort and improve consistency.
- Support migrations off legacy SQL Server versions and assist in modernization initiatives.
- 6+ years of experience administering and supporting SQL Server environments.
- Strong expertise in T-SQL, SQL Server performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
- Hands-on experience with automation and scripting for database operations.
- Experience supporting reporting and analytics workloads.
- Strong understanding of SQL Server architecture, indexing, and security.
- Flexible working hours and work-life balance.
- Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies.
- Collaborative and inclusive remote work environment.
- Professional development and career growth opportunities.
- Access to necessary tools and resources to perform effectively.
Why Apply Through Jobgether?
We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.
We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!
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What you'll do
- The Senior Database Engineer will own and operate enterprise SQL Server environments, ensuring reliability and performance. They will also standardize and automate database workflows and provide on-call support for mission-critical systems.
About Jobgether
Jobgether is an AI-powered career coach and matching platform fixing the broken job search. Remote professionals no longer waste hours applying blindly; instead, they receive a personalized job search strategy, stronger visibility, and curated matches aligned with their skills, flexibility preferences, and career goals.
We flip the hiring model by connecting talent only to roles that truly match, reducing noise for employers and eliminating wasted effort for candidates. Jobgether combines AI coaching, profile optimization, Match Score insights, and the world’s largest remote job database to help people land opportunities faster and with less bias.
Our purpose is to make remote job search guided and intentional.
Our mission is to become the world’s reference platform for remote talent, ensuring no professional remains invisible and every match is meaningful.
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What does a Senior Database Engineer (Remote) do at Jobgether?
As a Senior Database Engineer (Remote) at Jobgether, you will: the Senior Database Engineer will own and operate enterprise SQL Server environments, ensuring reliability and performance. They will also standardize and automate database workflows and provide on-call support for mission-critical systems..
Is the Senior Database Engineer (Remote) position at Jobgether remote?
The Senior Database Engineer (Remote) position at Jobgether is based in Tennessee, United States. Contact the company through Clera for specific work arrangement details.
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