**Introduction** A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat. Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience. This position is for a SQL Server DBA supporting the ALTESS commercial cloud services infrastructure. ALTESS is a managed service provider for Army and DoD IT systems and offers managed cloud services in Microsoft Azure. Candidates for this role must have the ability to obtain and maintain a US Security Clearance. This job can be performed from anywhere in the US. **Your role and responsibilities** * Build new cloud-based data center services environments for DoD cloud initiatives. * Assist with identifying and planning potential new cloud services, features, and capabilities. * Serve as overall subject matter expert on SQL Server DBA technology and market capabilities/trends. * Collaborate with internal and external parties to transform high-level technical objectives into comprehensive technical requirements. * Formulate detailed network, storage, and compute design specifications for stable and secure computing operations in a dynamic cloud-based environment. * Make recommendations for improvements to security, scalability, manageability, and performance across a wide variety of network, storage, and compute technologies. **Required technical and professional expertise** * The job requires a minimum of 3-5 years of experience as a SQL Server Database Administrator (DBA). * Candidates should have mid to senior-level experience working with SQL Server in a cloud environment. * Possession of a Security+ (or equivalent IA cert) and a computing environment certification, such as MCSA - SQL Server, is necessary. * Excellent verbal and written communication skills are expected, along with the ability to manage multiple large-scale projects effectively. * Experience with automation tools like Ansible, Puppet, Chef, and a solid understanding of network, storage, server, and application technologies are highly desirable. A background in scripting languages related to automation is also beneficial. **Preferred technical and professional experience** * Working knowledge of DoD STIGs, and IA Vulnerability Management (IAVM) IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.