Senior Associate - Data Base Administrator (Fabric)

Our Company

As a part of Brookfield’s $416B credit platform, Oaktree is a premier credit manager emphasizing an opportunistic, value-oriented, and risk-controlled approach to investing across credit, equity, and real estate.

Oaktree is committed to cultivating an environment that is collaborative, curious, inclusive and honors diversity of thought. Providing training and career development opportunities and emphasizing strong support for our local communities through philanthropic initiatives are essential to our culture.

Oaktree is wholly owned by Brookfield, a leading global investment firm with more than $1 trillion in assets under management. Brookfield owns and operates high-quality businesses and real assets that provide essential services and form the backbone of the global economy. It invests on behalf of institutions and individuals around the world across infrastructure, renewable power and transition, private equity, real estate, and credit.

For additional information, please visit Oaktree’s website at http://www.oaktreecapital.com/

Work Mode: Hybrid(3/2)

Shift: Rotational shifts(Inc Night) – 2 week rotation

Oaktree Capital Management is seeking an experienced SQL Server DBA/Microsoft Fabric Administrator to join our Data Platform team. This dual-role position is responsible for the health, performance, and governance of our Microsoft SQL Server estate alongside the design, deployment, and ongoing administration of our Microsoft Fabric data platform — including Copilot enablement, workspace governance, capacity management, and integration with Power BI, Azure Data Factory, and Synapse Analytics.

The ideal candidate brings deep SQL Server expertise, hands-on Fabric administration experience, and the ability to partner with data engineering, analytics, and compliance teams to deliver secure, high-performance data services at enterprise scale.

Responsibilities for this role include:

SQL Server Administration

Install, configure, patch, and upgrade SQL Server instances (2016–2022) across dev, UAT, and production environments

Design and maintain high-availability solutions: Always On Availability Groups and Failover Cluster Instances

Monitor and tune query performance using execution plans, DMVs, Query Store, and Extended Events

Co-support backup and recovery strategies; own RTO/RPO compliance and conduct periodic DR drills

Implement and enforce database security: logins, roles, row-level security, TDE, and audit policies

Administer SQL Server Agent jobs, SSIS packages, and linked servers

Collaborate with developers on schema changes, stored procedures, and deployment scripts

Strong background in T-SQL development, execution plan analysis, and schema design

Participating in on-call rotation for Production Support

Microsoft Fabric Administration

Administer Fabric tenant settings, capacity configuration, and workspace governance aligned with security and compliance policies

Manage Fabric capacity (F-SKU) provisioning, auto-scaling, and cost optimization, monitor CU utilization via the Capacity Metrics app

Enable and govern Copilot in Fabric: tenant settings, security group scoping, phased rollout, and cross-geo compliance controls

Provision and manage Fabric workspaces, lakehouses, warehouses, and data pipelines; enforce naming conventions and RBAC

Administer Power BI Premium / Fabric capacity: semantic models, dataflows Gen2, gateways, and report deployment pipelines

Configure and manage Fabric Data Agents, AI Skills, and Real-Time Intelligence (Eventhouse / KQL) workloads

Integrate Fabric with Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Azure DevOps CI/CD, and Microsoft Purview for data cataloguing and lineage

Maintain Fabric audit logs, sensitivity label compliance, and Purview information protection policies

SQL Server: 2016 / 2019 / 2022, SSMS, SSRS, SSIS, SQL Agent, Azure SQL Databases

In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with Power BI Service administration, including tenant settings and organizational policies

Familiarity with Microsoft Fabric, encompassing its core components: OneLake, Data Factory and Power BI

Experience in Fabric workspace management and deployment policies

Solid understanding and practical experience in implementing data governance principles, including data classification, data security, access control, data quality, and compliance

Strong understanding and experience with Power BI’s security model, including Row-Level Security (RLS) and Object-Level Security (OLS)

Exposure to dbt, Apache Spark, or PySpark within Fabric notebooks

Knowledge of Azure SQL PaaS services, Managed Instances, and Azure SQL Hyperscale (preferred)

Experience with cloud migration and hybrid cloud environments involving SQL Server and Azure SQL

Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines involving database and Power BI changes

Familiarity with Confluence, Jira and SQL Server and Azure database technologies

Experience with high availability architectures, clustering, and disaster recovery planning

Personal Attributes

Self-starter with a proven ability to take initiative

Responsible with a strong work ethic and sense of dedication

Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills

Works well under pressure and with time constraints

Outstanding organization skills with high attention-to-detail

Possess intellectual curiosity to improve systems and processes

Team-oriented with strong integrity and professionalism; and

Must be able to handle highly confidential information and situations with professionalism and tact.

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, business administration, finance, or related field from a top college or university.

Equal Opportunity Employment Policy

Oaktree is committed to diversity and to equal opportunity employment. Oaktree does not make employment decisions on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, past or present physical or mental disability, HIV status, medical condition as defined by state law (genetic characteristics or cancer), pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, veteran status, military service, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic violence victim status or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state and local laws and ordinances. This policy applies to hiring, placement, internal promotions, training, opportunities for advancement, recruitment advertising, transfers, demotions, layoffs, terminations, recruitment advertising, rates of pay and other forms of compensation and all other terms, conditions and privileges of employment.

This policy applies to all Oaktree applicants, employees, clients, and contractors.

Equal Opportunity Employment Policy

Oaktree is committed to diversity and to equal opportunity employment. Oaktree does not make employment decisions on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, past or present physical or mental disability, HIV status, medical condition as defined by state law (genetic characteristics or cancer), pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, veteran status, military service, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic violence victim status or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state and local laws and ordinances. This policy applies to hiring, placement, internal promotions, training, opportunities for advancement, recruitment advertising, transfers, demotions, layoffs, terminations, recruitment advertising, rates of pay and other forms of compensation and all other terms, conditions and privileges of employment. This policy applies to all Oaktree applicants, employees, clients, and contractors. Staff members wishing to report violations or suspected violations of this policy should contact the head of their department or Human Resources.

For positions based in Los Angeles

For those applying for a position in the city of Los Angeles, the firm will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.