Now Hiring: SQL Server Consultants

tl;dr – we’re looking for SQL Server database administrators who want to make the jump into consulting from home.

About Us

We’re a boutique consulting firm that specializes in high performance, highly available database servers.

We listen to a company’s pain points, find the root cause, and show them how to get permanent pain relief as quickly as possible. To get an idea of what we do, watch the video on our home page.

We sell a SQL Critical Care® package that’s 2-3 days long. This means each consultant does one or two new (or returning) clients per week, getting to the root of their performance and availability pains, and training them to get permanent pain relief.

We don’t have one “type” – we’ve hired people with all kinds of backgrounds – but for this round, we’re looking for production DBAs.

About You: What We’re Looking For

You’re a SQL Server database administrator with a few years experience. You read these three bullets, and think, “that’s me!”

• You’re comfortable troubleshooting production servers under pressure
• You like learning about interpreting query plans
• You’ve designed indexes to solve production problems (and maybe found one or two cases where your solution wasn’t perfect along the way)

In your time as a DBA, you’ve earned at least 4-5 of these badges of honor:

• Installed and patched at least a dozen SQL Servers
• Troubleshooting a cluster that has gone out of control
• Failed over a production database to a disaster recovery location, and back
• Worked with developers to figure out why their app can’t connect to the database
• Asked questions about performance issues through the SQL Server, Windows, virtualization, and storage layers
• Implemented change control to improve your patching process
• Compared monitoring software packages and set one up to your liking
• Explained a database concept to a room of non-technical managers
• Giving back via volunteering, blogging, and/or presenting to the database community

Our clients will love working with you because:

• You get excited about explaining how SQL Server works
• You see SQL Server problems as interesting mysteries to solve
• You’re comfortable talking to developers, sysadmins, and managers
• You’re relentlessly upbeat and fun to be around
• You build bridges rather than point fingers

You don’t have to worry if you don’t have:

• A track record of presenting at conferences
• A 400-level understanding of SQL Server internals
• The syntax for the MERGE command memorized
• Consulting experience

Sealing the Deal

You’ll love working with us because:

• You can work remotely from home during normal business hours, with no on-call requirements, and a max of 1 week of travel per 2 months
• You get to blog and present about your work
• You and your significant other will join us at our awesome annual retreat (in August 2015, it’s a week at a beach house on the Oregon coast)
• You get 6 weeks paid vacation per year
• You’ll be covered with a great health insurance plan at very low costs ($28.50 per person, per pay period)
• You’ll get your IRA matched up to 3% of your salary
• You’ll attend an annual training conference of your choosing, plus if you’re a Microsoft MVP, we pay for your travel and time for the MVP Summit each year
• You get your certification test attempts paid whether you pass or fail
• You’ll get home Internet, VOIP, and cell phone paid, plus a $3,000 biennial budget for hardware and software

Obligatory fine print: you have to be authorized to work lawfully in the United States for us.