Sr DBA Etudes- Expert SQL Server (H/F)

Want to be a bswifter?  At bswift we’ve been transforming benefits administration since 1996, making it simpler, smarter, and more human. Our state-of-the-art, cloud-based technology and services empower employees to understand, manage, and love their benefits. From downtown Chicago, and remotely across the country, we serve thousands of companies and millions of people nationwide, reducing administrative burdens and freeing HR teams to focus on creating thriving, people-first workplaces.   We’re looking for motivated and goal-driven individuals who share our passion for delivering excellence and creating solutions that make a difference. The reward is a fun, flexible and creative environment with ample opportunity for professional and personal growth. If you love the bswift values of pursue excellence, embrace accountability, deliver superior service, and be a great place to work, we want to hear from you!    ABOUT US bswift is a leading benefits administration technology company delivering modern, cloud-based solutions to employers and health plans across the United States. Our platform supports millions of employees through some of the most complex benefits transactions in the industry. We are evolving our database function into a true engineering organization—and this role is part of that transformation. We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Database Engineer (Cloud DBA) to join our Database Engineering team. This is a hands-on, high-impact role designed for a database professional who thrives on deep SQL Server expertise, automation, operational excellence, and cloud modernization. You will partner closely with Engineering, DevOps, Analytics, and Infrastructure teams to improve reliability, eliminate operational toil, and build scalable database platform capabilities that support our growing business.   WHAT YOU’LL DO The Senior Database Engineer (Cloud DBA) is responsible for the design, administration, optimization, automation, and reliability of enterprise database environments supporting mission-critical business applications. This role will lead initiatives to improve database performance, availability, security, and operational efficiency while helping transform traditional DBA practices into modern database engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate combines deep SQL Server expertise with a strong engineering mindset, leveraging automation, Infrastructure as Code, cloud technologies, and DevOps principles to build repeatable and scalable database solutions.   WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR (Essential Functions) Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions. SQL Server & Cloud Operations Administer, optimize, and support SQL Server 2019+ environments hosted on AWS EC2. Design, implement, and maintain high availability and disaster recovery solutions, including Always On Availability Groups, clustering, replication, and failover testing. Perform and continuously improve operational processes including backups, restores, database refreshes, index maintenance, patching, and capacity planning. Monitor database performance and troubleshoot issues using execution plans, query analysis, Extended Events, SQL Profiler, and enterprise monitoring tools. Participate in production support and on-call rotations while driving long-term improvements that reduce incident frequency and operational risk. Automation & Process Improvement Identify, prioritize, and eliminate manual database administration tasks through automation and standardization. Develop reusable automation solutions using PowerShell, T-SQL, SQL Agent, Terraform, CloudFormation, and other engineering tools. Standardize platform management practices across environments to improve consistency, reliability, and scalability. Promote database platforms as repeatable services rather than individually managed systems. DevOps & Engineering Integration Partner with application, platform, and DevOps teams to integrate database deployments into CI/CD pipelines. Support version-controlled database development and deployment practices. Contribute to schema versioning, release automation, and database change management initiatives. Advocate for database best practices within application architecture and development workflows. Support low-downtime or zero-downtime deployment strategies to improve release quality and stability. Team Enablement & Collaboration Mentor team members in automation, cloud technologies, operational excellence, and engineering best practices. Contribute to the evolution of the database team from reactive operational support to proactive platform engineering. Create and maintain documentation, standards, playbooks, and operational runbooks. Collaborate with global database engineering resources, including India-based team members, to maintain consistent standards and operational practices. Cloud & Platform Modernization Support AWS database services including RDS, Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and DynamoDB as business needs evolve. Participate in cloud migration, modernization, and platform transformation initiatives. Evaluate and implement new database and platform technologies that improve scalability, performance, and operational efficiency. Reliability, Security & Cost Optimization Improve platform reliability through monitoring, alerting, performance baselining, and capacity planning. Support service reliability initiatives, including SLIs, SLOs, incident reduction, and operational improvements. Implement and maintain secure database practices including encryption, auditing, role-based access controls, and compliance requirements. Optimize infrastructure utilization and storage costs through rightsizing, lifecycle management, and performance tuning.   WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED (Required Education and Experience) Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. 8+ years of hands-on SQL Server administration experience within enterprise production environments. Deep expertise with SQL Server performance tuning, monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimization. Extensive experience designing and supporting high availability and disaster recovery solutions, including Always On Availability Groups, clustering, replication, and disaster recovery testing. Demonstrated success automating operational processes through scripting and Infrastructure as Code practices. Experience supporting SQL Server environments running on AWS infrastructure, particularly EC2-hosted deployments. Experience supporting highly available, business-critical systems with demanding SLA requirements. Skills & Abilities Advanced SQL Server administration and performance tuning expertise. Strong scripting and automation skills using PowerShell and T-SQL. Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or other Infrastructure as Code tools. Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, version control systems, and DevOps practices. Experience with observability and monitoring tools including Idera, Redgate, CloudWatch, AppDynamics, Performance Insights, Extended Events, and SQL Profiler. Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving capabilities. Excellent interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills. Ability to effectively prioritize work and manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.   NICE TO HAVE (Preferred Education and Experience) Experience implementing database CI/CD and schema versioning solutions such as Flyway, Liquibase, or SSDT. Advanced experience with Infrastructure as Code frameworks, including Terraform and CloudFormation. Experience supporting PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aurora, or DynamoDB environments. Familiarity with AWS services including Glue, Lambda, OpenSearch, and Bedrock. Knowledge of enterprise data modeling, schema design, and data architecture principles. Experience in healthcare, insurance, financial services, or other highly regulated industries. Exposure to AI/ML-enabled data platforms and modern data engineering practices.   OTHER DUTIES Participation in an on-call support rotation is required. Occasional travel may be required based on business needs. Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.     Why Join bswift? At bswift, we empower our employees to make a meaningful impact, innovate, and grow. Joining our team means stepping into a collaborative and dynamic environment that values creativity, initiative, and a passion for client success. We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive workplace that celebrates diversity and values each team member’s unique contributions. Benefits of Working at bswift: * Comprehensive Health Benefits: Access to health, dental, and vision plans to support your wellness and that of your family. * Competitive Compensation: A compensation package that recognizes your skills, experience, and contributions, including performance-based incentives for most roles. * Remote first, Office friendly environment! No time to commute?  No problem! * Retirement Savings Plans: Options to help you plan for a secure financial future with employer-sponsored retirement savings programs. * Professional Development: Opportunities for career growth, including training and access to resources to support your career progression. * Supportive Culture: A work environment that encourages collaboration, open communication, and creative problem-solving, where your voice and ideas are valued. * Employee Wellbeing Initiatives: Programs focused on mental health, financial planning, and wellness resources to help you thrive inside and outside of work. Make an Impact: At bswift, your work directly contributes to transforming how organizations approach benefits administration and client engagement. Join us to be part of an organization that is making a meaningful difference in the lives of our clients and their employees. Specific benefit offerings vary by position and may be subject to change.   Standard working hours are 8am-5pm Central Time, unless otherwise stated in the Job Description.      In the spirit of pay transparency, we are excited to share the base salary range for this position is $140,000-$160,000, exclusive of fringe benefits or potential bonuses.  If you are hired at bswift, your final base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as geographic location, skills, education, and/or experience. In addition to those factors – we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as a part of any final offer. Please keep in mind that the range mentioned above is the full base salary range for the role. Hiring at the maximum of the range would not be typical in order to allow for future & continued salary growth. We also offer a generous compensation and benefits package! At bswift, our mission is clear: Become the preeminent benefits administrator through exceptional people, innovative technology, and delighted customers. And our values are at the heart of everything we do to accomplish that mission. We Pursue Excellence, Embrace Accountability, Deliver Superior Service, and strive to Be A Great Place To Work. We take pride in having an engaged, collaborative team that goes the extra mile to get the job done right.    bswift has been regularly named one of Chicago’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For®, as well as one of the Nation’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® year after year. We offer a fun, flexible, and creative environment where you can grow both professionally and personally.  If you have what it takes to join our award-winning culture, we’d love to hear from you!

WHY VERIFONE For more than 30 years, Verifone has established a remarkable record of leadership in the electronic payment technology industry. Verifone is one of the leading electronic payment solutions brands and among the largest providers of electronic payment systems worldwide. Verifone has a diverse, dynamic, and fast-paced work environment in which employees are focused on results and have opportunities to excel. We take pride in working with leading retailers, merchants, banks, and third-party partners to invent and deliver innovative payment solutions around the world. We strive for excellence in our products and services and are obsessed with customer happiness. Across the globe, Verifone employees are leading the payments industry through experience, innovation, and an ambitious spirit. Whether it’s developing the next generation of secure payment systems or finding new ways to bring electronic payments to emerging markets, the Verifone team is dedicated to the success of our customers, partners, and investors. It is this passion for innovation that drives every Verifone employee toward personal and professional success. Verifone is proudly an in-office work culture as we see immense benefits to career development and business results from our colleagues being physically co-located. WHAT'S EXCITING ABOUT THE ROLE Verifone is seeking an experienced MySQL Lead DBA who will be responsible for ensuring database performance, high availability, and security of clusters and single instances of MySQL instances. You will also be responsible for orchestrating upgrades, backups, HA/DR, and provisioning database instances. You will work closely with other teams, including application architects/ Sr. Developers and application support engineers for architecture design and SQL optimization, establishing and documenting best practices. We look for dedicated and versatile engineers who are passionate about working in a company whose culture is dedicated to delivering innovative software products that solve our customers’ most challenging business needs. As a Lead DBA, you’ll have the opportunity to make significant and direct impact on our database performance, applications, and solve some of the most complex challenges in cloud and on prem environments, while lead the team from a technical and development perspective.   This hybrid role is open to hiring candidates located in: * Bucharest, Romania * London, United Kingdom * Riga, Lativa * Warsaw, Poland   KEY RESPONSIBILITIES You will be responsible for ensuring that database management policies, processes and procedures are established and followed, adhering to ITIL good practice principles and are subjected to continuous improvement as per PCI standards. They will be responsible for reviewing system design changes to ensure they adhere to expected service standards and recommend changes to ensure maximum stability, availability and efficiency of the supported applications. The candidate should understand the application functionality, business logics and work with application stake holders to understand the requirement and discuss with the new application features and propose the right solutions. He must liaise closely and work in collaboration with the release management teams, support teams and the infrastructure DBAs.  * Design, Install, Deploy and Manage MySQL on Physical, Virtual, AWS EC2 / RDS / Aurora. * Build MySQL clusters with a high availability, active-active cluster setup in a large scale and multi datacenter environments having minimum RPO/RTO on a DR scenario * Design and implement uniform backup strategy and business continuity plans across the MySQL environments using Percona XtraDB or custom automation scripts with reliable monitoring and alerting mechanisms * Define thorough and validated database monitoring and alerting, along with documentation for future references * Setup high availability with Master-Master/ Master-slave replication * Maintain stable performance via server optimizations * Guide engineering teams to best practices on server configurations and SQL tuning. * Maintain security and compliance via OS and database version upgrades * Work with application stake holders to create effective database solutions * Create and maintain adhoc reports * Adhere to the incident and change process, prepare thorough documentation, and peer review planned production tasks * Support application release process, and automations * Mentor and develop other engineers on MySQL skills REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS * Minimum 8 years of experience managing MySQL * Experience with MySQL Active/Active cluster setup, Database Upgrade and Migrations, Scripting * Experience administrating MySQL on Linux platform * Experience with MySQL version upgrades in production environments with a zero or very minimum application down time * Experience with design & architecting MySQL environments using any framework such as Galera Cluster or Percona XtraDB * Experience deploying database monitoring using at least one of PMM, New Relic, Datadog, Nagios, Grafana, ELK, AppD, etc. * Infrastructure as Code (IaC) such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef * Proficiency with cloud infrastructure, AWS RDS or equivalent. * Automation/scripting skills in a modern language like Python, Shell scripting, Go, Java, Rust. * Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins, Github Actions, Gitlab. * Advanced experience with database performance tuning including SQL tuning, hardware configuration and capacity planning. * Strong technical leadership, mentoring and time management skills. PREFERRED SKILLS (NOT MANDATORY) * Experience working with PCI (Payment Card Industry Data Security) standards * ITIL environment experience * Deep experience with SQL, stored procedures, functions, triggers, batch jobs, reporting, analytics. * Experience managing PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and/or Oracle. * Experience and knowledge with NoSQL and data engineering technologies such as Kafka, Redis, Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Redshift, ETL, etc. * Experience with data analytics and Business intelligence OUR COMMITMENT Verifone is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Verifone is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.