Database Administrator

About Sky. West Sky. West is the largest regional airline in the United States and partners with four major airline carriers. More importantly, we’re known for our reliability, service, and our professional employees who operate flights each day throughout North America. We have been esteemed as one of America’s Best Employers by Forbes and are known for an industry-leading workforce, an exceptional leadership team, and our continued solid operational and economic performance.

Sky. West employees enjoy a distinctive and unmatched culture of teamwork, respect, quality, and professionalism, along with world-class benefits such as: 401(k) match Performance Rewards and Profit Sharing Health care (medical, dental, and vision) Discounted worldwide flight benefits and free on available open seating for you and your family with four of our major airlines (Delta, United, Alaska, and American) Primary Job Duties Administers, maintains, and supports Microsoft SQL Server database environments used throughout Sky.

West Airlines. Designs and maintains SQL Server architecture standards to ensure reliability, scalability, performance, and security. Develops and executes database capacity planning strategies to support current and future business growth. Designs, implements, and supports High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions, including failover and recovery procedures.

Monitors database performance and proactively identifies opportunities for optimization and improvement. Creates, maintains, and optimizes database objects including tables, views, indexes, functions, and stored procedures. Performs performance tuning and query optimization for business-critical applications. Installs, configures, upgrades, and patches SQL Server environments.

Collaborates with software developers, infrastructure teams, and business partners to design and support database solutions. Leads database migrations, upgrades, and implementation projects. Troubleshoots and resolves complex database and application performance issues. Develops and maintains technical documentation, standards, and operational procedures.

Ensures database environments comply with company security, governance, and retention requirements. Provides support for production systems and participates in after-hours maintenance and support activities as required Minimum Requirements Four-year Computer Science, Computer Information Services, Information Systems, or related degree OR 5+ years experience as a SQL Server Database Administrator Minimum 2 years experience preferred Microsoft SQL Server Certifications preferred Physical and Other Requirements Sitting for long periods of time Position in SGU This is not a Department of Transportation safety-sensitive position.

Four-year Computer Science, Computer Information Services, Information Systems, or related degree OR 5+ years experience as a SQL Server Database Administrator Minimum 2 years experience preferred Microsoft SQL Server Certifications preferred Administers, maintains, and supports Microsoft SQL Server database environments used throughout Sky.

West Airlines. Designs and maintains SQL Server architecture standards to ensure reliability, scalability, performance, and security. Develops and executes database capacity planning strategies to support current and future business growth. Designs, implements, and supports High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions, including failover and recovery procedures.

Monitors database performance and proactively identifies opportunities for optimization and improvement. Creates, maintains, and optimizes database objects including tables, views, indexes, functions, and stored procedures. Performs performance tuning and query optimization for business-critical applications. Installs, configures, upgrades, and patches SQL Server environments.

Collaborates with software developers, infrastructure teams, and business partners to design and support database solutions. Leads database migrations, upgrades, and implementation projects. Troubleshoots and resolves complex database and application performance issues. Develops and maintains technical documentation, standards, and operational procedures.

Ensures database environments comply with company security, governance, and retention requirements. Provides support for production systems and participates in after-hours maintenance and support activities as required