Senior Database Administrator
Value Creed Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Oil and Gas · 51-200 employees
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About the role
The role involves managing, maintaining, and optimizing SQL Server environments while supporting Azure cloud infrastructure operations. Responsibilities include database performance tuning, security management, disaster recovery, and collaborating with cross-functional teams for production support.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have 3–6 years of experience in Microsoft SQL Server administration and practical knowledge of Azure cloud infrastructure. A bachelor's degree in a relevant field is required, and Azure certifications such as AZ-104 or DP-300 are preferred.
Full description
We are looking for a SQL Server Database Administrator with 3–6 years of experience in database administration and hands-on knowledge of Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure. The role involves managing, maintaining, securing, and optimizing SQL Server environments, supporting production databases, and assisting with Azure infrastructure operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Install, configure, maintain, patch, and upgrade SQL Server instances (2016, 2019, and 2022).
- Manage database backups, restores, recovery procedures, integrity checks, SQL Server Agent jobs, and routine maintenance activities.
- Monitor database performance, capacity, storage, CPU, memory, disk I/O, blocking, deadlocks, and troubleshoot production issues.
- Optimize SQL queries, stored procedures, indexes, and execution plans using Query Store, Extended Events, SQL Server Profiler, and monitoring tools.
- Configure and support SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, high availability, disaster recovery, and failover activities.
- Manage database security, including logins, users, roles, permissions, auditing, and access controls.
- Support SQL Server databases hosted on Azure Virtual Machines and assist with on-premises to Azure database migrations.
- Manage and troubleshoot Azure infrastructure, including virtual machines, managed disks, storage, virtual networks, subnets, NSGs, and VNet peering.
- Monitor Azure infrastructure using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, alerts, and Azure Backup.
- Support access management and cloud security using Azure RBAC and Microsoft Entra ID.
- Automate routine DBA activities using PowerShell and T-SQL.
- Handle incident management, root cause analysis, change management, documentation, and production troubleshooting.
- Collaborate with application, infrastructure, development, and DevOps teams and participate in production maintenance and on-call support.
Key Skills
- 3–6 years of hands-on experience in Microsoft SQL Server Database Administration.
- Strong knowledge of SQL Server 2016, 2019, and 2022 installation, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
- Expertise in database backup, recovery, performance tuning, indexing, and query optimization.
- Experience with SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, High Availability, and Disaster Recovery.
- Practical knowledge of Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure, particularly Azure Virtual Machines and networking.
- Experience with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Azure Backup, Azure RBAC, and Microsoft Entra ID.
- Proficiency in T-SQL and PowerShell scripting.
- Familiarity with SQL Sentry or similar database monitoring tools.
- Knowledge of Terraform, Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation is an added advantage.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Azure certifications such as AZ-104 or DP-300 are preferred.
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