Database Administrator
CarShield · St. Peters, MO
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Jun 29, 2026
St. Peters, MO
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on SQL Server DBA role focused on managing on-premises database infrastructure, including Always On Availability Groups, backup and disaster recovery, security, and performance tuning. The position involves day-to-day monitoring, incident response, and collaboration with developers on schema and query reviews, as well as maintaining SQL Agent jobs and Change Data Capture processes. Suits an experienced production DBA comfortable owning reliability and performance end to end.
Senior level · 5+ years · St. Louis, MO-IL · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $104,650 (middle half $76,680–$132,040).
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 (8)
Role is explicitly on-site 5 days/week at CarShield's St. Peters, MO headquarters, which falls within the St. Louis, MO-IL CBSA.
Degree requirement is a Bachelor's in CS/MIS 'or equivalent experience' — treated as no hard degree gate.
Compensation is stated only as 'salary commensurate with experience' with no figures provided.
SQL Server performance tuning is listed as a single required capability covering execution plans, index strategy, and wait statistics — kept as one skill to avoid splitting a unified requirement.
Change Data Capture (CDC) and SQL Agent jobs appear in the responsibilities section rather than a formal requirements block; however, CDC is called out specifically and is closely tied to the core DBA duties described, so it is included as a required skill. T-SQL development is listed under preferred, but given it is a core DBA competency explicitly mentioned in requirements context, it is retained — note the JD does label it 'preferred when needed for project,' so it is marked preferred.
T-SQL is listed under the preferred section ('T/SQL Development when needed for project preferred') and is therefore marked as preferred despite being a foundational DBA skill.
ETL/ELT appears under preferred as 'experience with data engineering and building data pipelines (ETL/ELT)' — no specific tooling named.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): Always On Availability Groups, SQL Server performance tuning.
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