Sr. Database Administrator

Location: US -Remote

Our Team:

Semtech’s Connectivity Services team is a group of passionate and talented engineers tasked with developing and delivering industry-leading connectivity solutions for the IoT platform space. We enable our customers and partners to achieve a new standard of connectivity performance, and we have a versatile and exceptionally talented team of individuals to make this vision a reality!

Job Summary:

The Sr. DBA role is largely responsible for providing operational database services to the organization. Some of the primary responsibilities of this role would include owning, tracking, and resolving database related incidents and requests; fulfilling requests and resolving incidents within SLAs; reviewing service related reports (e.g., database backups, maintenance, monitoring) on a daily basis to ensure service related issues are identified and resolved within established SLAs; responding to database related alerts and escalations; and working with database engineering to come up with strategic solutions to recurring problems.

Responsibilities:

• Manage efficient operations of production, QA, and development database environments.

• Oversee design and implementation across production, QA, and development environments.

• Ensure replication of data and schema between production, QA, and development database environments.

• Manage version control of all database code.

• Oversee the development, testing, and implementation of Reporting Services reports.

• Ensure adherence to database code promotion across environments.

• Troubleshoot database scheduled jobs and resolve issues.

• Identify and resolve contention and bottlenecks at the database layer.

• Manage capacity planning, index maintenance, and future table partitioning schema implementation.

• Assist in testing, performance tuning, and optimization of stored procedures.

• Provide overlap assistance troubleshooting portal issues from a programmatic standpoint (e.g., C#, HTML, TSQL).

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• 5+ years of experience as a database administrator managing complex database environments.

• Strong knowledge of database structures, theories, principles, and practices.

• Hands-on experience with SQL Server, including backup, restore, performance tuning, and optimization.

• Experience in version control systems, schema management, and data replication between environments.

• Strong troubleshooting skills across database and application layers.

• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects and tasks simultaneously.

Desired Qualifications

• Professional certifications such as MCDBA or MCITP—Database.

• 4 to 8 years of experience as a DBA.

• Experience with Reporting Services and stored procedure optimization.

• Familiarity with C#, HTML, and T-SQL for programmatic troubleshooting.

• Advanced experience with capacity planning, table partitioning, and index maintenance.

• Experience with cloud database environments (e.g., AWS RDS, Azure SQL).

The intent of this job description is to describe the major duties and responsibilities performed by incumbents of this job. Incumbents may be required to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically included in this description.

All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.

 We are proud to be an EEO employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace.

A reasonable estimate of the pay range for this position is $102,900-$135,000  There are several factors taken into consideration in determining base salary, including but not limited to: job-related qualifications, skills, education and experience, as well as job location and the value of other elements of an employee’s total compensation package