Sr. Database Administrator
Cordova · Irving, TX
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Jul 21, 2026
Irving, TX
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level database role at an insurance organization, focused on administering and optimizing SQL Server environments both on-premises and in Microsoft Azure. Day-to-day work spans performance tuning, security enforcement (encryption, access controls, threat monitoring), data governance frameworks, backup and high-availability strategies, and cloud migrations. The role also involves scripting automation, collaborating with development teams, and guiding junior staff. Suits an experienced DBA with deep Azure and SQL Server expertise.
Senior level · 7+ years
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What the occupation pays Median $106,921 (middle half $81,361–$138,439).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (10)
No work location or metro area is specified in the posting; CBSA is left blank. The role appears to be for a US-based insurance client but no city or state is mentioned.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree … required' but immediately qualifies it with 'equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of degree' — treated as no hard degree gate.
Azure Key Vault and Azure Purview appear under the required qualifications section ('Expertise in Azure security tools … and governance tools') and are marked required accordingly, even though they are introduced with 'e.g.'.
Failover Clustering is listed alongside Always On in the experience section as a hard-required high-availability technology.
Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics appear in the responsibilities narrative as examples of Azure data services the candidate should provide expertise on; they are also echoed in the preferred qualifications section — marked preferred.
Azure Data Lake, Azure Synapse Analytics (second mention), and Azure Purview (second mention) appear explicitly under a 'preferred' qualifications heading; Azure Purview is also in the required section, so it is retained as required.
Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, ARM templates, and Terraform are explicitly listed under a 'preferred' qualifier at the end of the Experience section.
Preferred certifications (Azure Database Administrator Associate, Data Management and Analytics, Security/Compliance/Identity Fundamentals) are not emitted as skills as they are credentials, not technologies.
The 7-year total experience minimum comes from 'Minimum of 7 years of experience in database administration'; the '3 years in a senior role' sub-requirement is captured in the advertised seniority and seniority fields.
Ignored 4 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): Azure SQL Managed Instance, Always On Availability Groups, Azure Defender for SQL, Azure Automation.
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