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Sr SQL AdministratorPenumbra, Inc. · Alameda, CA
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Sr SQL Administrator

🗓️ Posted 2026-08-23 Alameda, CA External Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary 11,667 CAD–16,667 CAD/mo (140,000 CAD–200,000 CAD/yr) 📊 Market 8,500 CAD–12,500 CAD/mo

About the Company

Penumbra, Inc., headquartered in Alameda, California, is a global healthcare company focused on innovative therapies. Penumbra designs, develops, manufactures and markets novel products and has a broad portfolio that addresses challenging medical conditions in markets with significant unmet need. Penumbra sells its products to hospitals and healthcare providers primarily through its direct sales organization in the United States, most of Europe, Canada and Australia, and through distributors in select international markets. The Penumbra logo is a trademark of Penumbra, Inc. Members of the Penumbra team agree that this is where their work has meaning -- we are transforming the treatment of some of the world's most devastating conditions. Penumbra is where everyone's ideas matter, and where learning and growth are constant. No. 5 on the Greater Bay Area Manufacturers List, San Francisco Business Times, 2020 100 Fastest-Growing Companies, Fortune, 2019 Review our community guidelines for LinkedIn here: https://bit.ly/2Jmbw83. Medical Equipment Manufacturing Specialties: Neurointerventional devices, Stroke treatment, Vascular access, Thrombectomy systems, Interventional radiology, Medical device innovation

Responsibilities

  • ● The Senior SQL Administrator is responsible for the administration, performance, availability, security, recoverability, and integrity of enterprise database platforms across on-premises and cloud-based environments. This position designs, implements, monitors, optimizes, and supports highly available database platforms used by businesses, manufacturing, quality, reporting, integration, and infrastructure systems.
  • ● Serving as a database subject matter expert, the Sr. SQL Database Administrator partners with Infrastructure, Applications, Security, Quality, and business teams to maintain stable, secure, scalable, and compliant database services across on-premises and cloud environments.
  • ● Specific Duties and Responsibilities
  • ● Database Operations, Availability & Performance:
  • ● Manage the day-to-day operations of enterprise database platforms, including configuration, maintenance, patching, backups, restores, performance, security, and capacity.
  • ● Administer, maintain, and optimize Microsoft SQL Server environments across on-premises, virtualized, and cloud-hosted platforms.
  • ● Monitor database health, performance, job execution, storage utilization, blocking, deadlocks, replication, availability groups, and backup success.
  • ● Perform database performance tuning, including query analysis, indexing strategy, execution plan review, statistics maintenance, wait analysis, and resource optimization.
  • ● Implement and support high availability and disaster recovery solutions, including SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, clustering, log shipping, replication, backups, and restore testing.
  • ● Plan and execute database maintenance activities, including index maintenance, integrity checks, patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
  • ● Support database capacity planning, storage forecasting, performance baselining, and scalability planning for business-critical systems.
  • ● Provide after hours on-call support on a rotation schedule with other staff members.
  • ● Security, Access Control & Data Integrity:
  • ● Maintain database security controls, including authentication, authorization, least-privilege access, role-based permissions, encryption, auditing, and privileged access review.
  • ● Partner with Security and Infrastructure teams to support secure database connectivity, certificate use, service accounts, firewall rules, vulnerability remediation, and patch compliance.
  • ● Protect the integrity of enterprise data through routine DBCC checks, backup validation, restore testing, change review, and controlled release practices.
  • ● Review and support database changes, schema updates, stored procedures, SQL Agent jobs, integrations, and application releases to reduce operational risk.
  • ● Maintain database inventory, configuration standards, operational documentation, recovery procedures, and support runbooks.
  • ● Troubleshooting, Automation & Continuous Improvement:
  • ● Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for complex database incidents, performance degradation, failed jobs, restore issues, connectivity problems, and application-impacting database events.