SQL DBA

Role: L3 Database Administrator (DBA) – MS SQL Server

Experience: 8-12 years

Support Model: 24/7

Skills \& Experience

• Extensive hands‑on experience administering large‑scale Microsoft SQL Server estates supporting mission‑critical production workloads across Silver, Gold, and Platinum tiers.
• Strong expertise in SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery, including Always On Availability Groups, failover validation, DR execution, and strict RTO/RPO adherence.
• Proven ownership of Sev‑1 / Sev‑2 production incidents, including rapid diagnosis, restoration, Major Incident bridge participation, and leading RCA with preventive actions.
• Advanced SQL Server performance engineering skills covering execution plan analysis, wait‑stat diagnostics, indexing and statistics strategy, blocking/deadlock resolution, and capacity forecasting.
• Demonstrated capability in backup, restore, and recoverability assurance, including policy‑driven backups, restore testing, and audit‑ready recovery evidence.
• Hands‑on proficiency with enterprise monitoring and observability tools such as AppDynamics, Splunk, Nagios, and native SQL Server telemetry for cross‑stack diagnostics.
• Strong experience with SQL Server administration and fleet‑management tooling, including SSMS, SCOM, and SQL Central Management Server, for standardized operations.
• Ability to analyze repetitive operational workloads (access, backups, jobs, patching, provisioning) and drive automation and standardization opportunities.
• Experience operating in security‑ and compliance‑driven environments, supporting SOX controls, access governance, audit logging, encryption, and backup/DR compliance.
• Exposure to collaborating within ServiceNow AIOps / Event Manager environments, supporting event correlation, anomaly detection, incident prediction, and policy‑controlled automation, is an added advantage..

Recommended Certifications

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate (DP‑300)
• Windows 2019/22/ Redhat Linux 8\.x/9\.x
• ITIL V4