Senior Database Administrator

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

📋 Description

• Manage, oversee, optimize, apply patches, upgrade, and troubleshoot SQL Server 2019 and later environments.

• Ensure database integrity, availability, backup, restoration, and disaster recovery protocols, including regular recovery testing.

• Implement and support high-availability solutions such as Always On Availability Groups and suitable failover architectures.

• Evaluate execution plans, indexes, statistics, waits, memory, tempdb, storage, blocking, deadlocks, and concurrency issues.

• Establish database maintenance standards for consistency checks, backups, index/statistics management, jobs, retention, and capacity planning.

• Manage security through least privilege, role-based access, encryption, auditing, service-account governance, and access reviews.

• Collaborate with developers and data engineers on schema design, stored procedures, query performance, releases, and rollback strategies.

• Automate operational tasks using T-SQL, PowerShell, SQLCMD, SQL Agent, source control, and authorized monitoring platforms.

• Lead database incident response, conduct root-cause analysis, implement corrective actions, and communicate with stakeholders.

• Provide technical leadership for SQL Server migrations, consolidations, upgrades, Azure SQL adoption, and hybrid modernization initiatives.

• Support Microsoft BI and integration workloads, including SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, and Power BI connectivity.

• Maintain architecture diagrams, configuration baselines, runbooks, escalation procedures, and support documentation.

⛳️ Requirements

• At least 7 years of professional database administration experience, including senior management of enterprise Microsoft SQL Server environments.

• Extensive production experience with SQL Server 2019 or newer, covering installation, configuration, patching, security, performance, backup/recovery, and troubleshooting.

• Proficient in T-SQL with a deep understanding of SQL Server internals, indexing, query optimization, transactions, locking, and concurrency management.

• Practical experience with HA/DR technologies and verified recovery procedures.

• Strong foundational knowledge of Windows Server, authentication, storage, networking, service account management, certificates, and permissions.

• Experience in automating DBA tasks using PowerShell, T-SQL, and source-controlled scripts.

• Proven experience leading complex incidents and effectively communicating under production pressure.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Ability to mentor team members, lead design or incident reviews, and document repeatable standards.

• Strong commitment to security, data privacy, responsible technology usage, and continuous learning.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal opportunities employer

• Zero tolerance for discrimination

• Continuous learning