Senior Infrastructure Engineer / DBA

Position: Senior Infrastructure Engineer / DBA

Location: Chicago, IL (3 days onsite)

Type : Contract
Pay rate : $60-65/hr

Experience: 10 Years

Job Responsibilities:

• Provide recommendations and insight on data management, governance procedures, and the intricacies of acquiring, maintaining, validating, and using data.
• Work with other team members, including offshore teams, to resolve high-priority issues.
• Help manage GAIA application pools.
• Design and maintain robust software solutions for monitoring and alerting as needed.
• Work with the team on database performance issues, including code and infrastructure issues, sometimes using SQL Sentry.
• Help monitor and troubleshoot SQL Server Availability Groups, including but not limited to replication issues, database failovers, and general troubleshooting.
• Work with the team on certificate tracking and renewals.
• Use AI tools and agents in day-to-day work to enhance productivity, automate routine tasks, and accelerate issue diagnosis and resolution.
• Partner with offshore and globally distributed teams to ensure seamless coverage, knowledge sharing, and consistent delivery across time zones.
• Support the team s on-call rotation.
• Contribute to a team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• 10 years of hands-on experience managing enterprise databases and supporting infrastructure in large-scale, mission-critical environments.
• Extensive, deep hands-on experience with relational databases, particularly Microsoft SQL Server.
• Extensive proficiency with Transact-SQL (T-SQL).
• Proven, in-depth experience designing, deploying, and troubleshooting SQL infrastructure, including Availability Groups (replication and failover).
• Substantial, in-depth experience with PowerShell scripting and ETL processes.
• Strong, demonstrated experience with database performance troubleshooting and tuning, including tools such as SQL Sentry.
• Proven experience designing and maintaining monitoring and alerting solutions at scale.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including non-technical business stakeholders and offshore teams.
• Experience with internal cloud applications.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Experience with version control systems such as Git and Bitbucket for data.
• Demonstrated ability to apply AI tools in day-to-day work to enhance output, automate repetitive tasks, and troubleshoot and resolve issues more efficiently.
• A forward-looking mindset toward AI-driven transformation, continuously seeking opportunities to modernize workflows and improve reliability through emerging AI capabilities.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Experience with SQL Server Availability Groups.
• Proficiency with PowerShell.
• Solid understanding of Transact-SQL.
• Experience with internal cloud application infrastructure.
• Experience with overall SQL troubleshooting.
• Experience working with offshore or globally distributed engineering teams.
• Experience with VS Copilot and Outlook Copilot AI agents, developing agent MCPs, and building custom targeted agent profiles.
• Experience building agnostic agents.
• Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants and agents to write, debug, and Eligible to workimize code and automation.
• Track record of driving AI-led transformation initiatives that measurably improve efficiency, quality, or reliability.