Join Team FSSI and Become an Employee-Owner!

Who We Are:

Opening its doors over 45 years ago, FSSI is a leading document outsourcing company servicing Fortune 500 companies in the financial, banking, insurance and billing industries across the U.S. We are currently looking for a Microsoft SQL Database Administrator to join our FSSI East Development team.

Location:

This is a remote opportunity open to candidates residing in the following states: Florida, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Vermont, Texas, and Alabama. Candidates who are interested in a hybrid or onsite arrangement may also work from our facilities in Lincoln, RI or Orlando, FL.

Responsibilities:

• This role is responsible for the administration, availability, performance, security, integrity, and recoverability of Microsoft SQL Server database environments supporting FSSI business and production systems.
• Responsibilities include installing, configuring, monitoring, maintaining, troubleshooting, and optimizing SQL Server platforms; supporting application and development teams; implementing backup, recovery, high-availability, and disaster-recovery solutions; and ensuring database environments comply with FSSI security, change-management, and operational standards.

Your Essential Duties:

• Administer, configure, monitor, patch, upgrade, and maintain Microsoft SQL Server database environments across development, test, and production systems.
• Install and configure SQL Server instances, databases, SQL Server Agent jobs, linked servers, maintenance plans, and related database services.
• Monitor database availability, capacity, performance, blocking, deadlocks, waits, storage utilization, and overall system health; proactively identify and resolve issues.
• Perform SQL performance tuning, including query analysis, execution-plan review, indexing strategy, statistics maintenance, and optimization of stored procedures and database objects.
• Design, implement, test, and maintain backup and recovery strategies that meet established recovery point and recovery time objectives.
• Support high-availability and disaster-recovery technologies such as SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, failover clustering, log shipping, and replication as appropriate.
• Manage database security, roles, permissions, service accounts, encryption, auditing, and access controls in accordance with least-privilege and FSSI security standards.
• Apply SQL Server security updates, cumulative updates, and version upgrades using approved change-management and testing processes.
• Create, review, and maintain T-SQL scripts, stored procedures, functions, views, indexes, SQL Agent jobs, and database maintenance routines.
• Partner with application developers to review database designs, data models, queries, stored procedures, and deployment scripts for performance, scalability, reliability, and security.
• Support database deployments through CI/CD and DevOps processes and participate in release planning, validation, rollback, and post-deployment monitoring.
• Automate routine database administration activities using PowerShell, T-SQL, SQL Server Agent, and other approved scripting and orchestration tools.
• Maintain database documentation, configuration standards, data dictionaries, runbooks, recovery procedures, and operational support documentation.
• Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, problem management, and production support for database-related issues.
• Monitor and manage capacity, storage growth, retention requirements, archiving, and data lifecycle needs.
• Support integrations and data movement using technologies such as SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), APIs, ETL/ELT processes, and secure file/data transfer mechanisms.
• Work with infrastructure, security, development, QA, and DevOps teams to ensure reliable and secure database services.
• Evaluate and support SQL Server workloads hosted on-premises and in cloud environments, including SQL Server hosted in AWS.
• Ensure database systems and changes comply with FSSI security, audit, business-continuity, change-management, and production standards.

What You Bring:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Database Administration, Software Engineering, or a related field preferred; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• 2–4 years of experience administering Microsoft SQL Server environments preferred.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate (DP-300) strongly preferred, or an equivalent current Microsoft data-platform/database administration certification.
• Additional current Microsoft Azure, Windows Server, security, or data-platform certifications are preferred.
• Relevant AWS, CompTIA, or other recognized infrastructure/security certifications are a plus.
• Demonstrated continuing education in Microsoft SQL Server, cloud database platforms, security, high availability, performance tuning, and database automation is preferred.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server administration, architecture, configuration, security, backup/recovery, and performance tuning.
• Proficiency with T-SQL, SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), SQL Server Agent, execution plans, indexing, stored procedures, and database troubleshooting.
• Working knowledge of SQL Server high-availability and disaster-recovery technologies, including Always On Availability Groups and failover concepts.
• Experience with database backup, restore, recovery testing, integrity checks, and disaster-recovery procedures.
• Understanding of database security concepts including least privilege, role-based access, encryption, auditing, authentication, and secure configuration.
• Experience using PowerShell and/or T-SQL to automate database administration and operational tasks.
• Familiarity with Windows Server, Active Directory, networking, storage, virtualization, and infrastructure concepts that affect SQL Server.
• Familiarity with Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, SQL Server on Azure/AWS, or other cloud-hosted SQL Server environments.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, Git, CI/CD pipelines, database deployment tooling, monitoring, and observability.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to participate in scheduled maintenance and production support activities as business needs require.

Why Join Us?

• Employee Ownership through our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP): When you join our team, you’re not just an employee; you become an employee-owner, sharing in the success of our company and shaping its future.
• Culture of CARE for our Employees: We go beyond traditional health and wellness programs, offering in person and virtual Care Partners whose only mission is the health and happiness of our employees and their families.
• Industry Leadership: FSSI is a technology-driven leader in document services, focused on providing best-in-class services and dedicated to utilizing industry-leading software and equipment.
• Benefits include: 401(k) & Roth + Employee Stock Ownership Plan, Medical, Dental, Vision & Life Insurance, Vacation, sick leave and paid holidays – including your birthday!, Employee Assistance & Care Programs, Additional perks & employee award programs.