Senior reputed company reputed company SQL Server DBA
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We are seeking a highly reputed company Senior reputed company reputed company SQL Server DBA to take ownership of our reputed company database environments and drive application performance reputed company. In this senior-level role you will serve as the subject matter expert for reputed company SQL Server platforms, leading performance engineering initiatives, mentoring junior DBAs, and acting as the primary escalation reputed company for critical incidents. You will partner closely with application development teams, infrastructure architects, and business stakeholders to ensure database systems are available, secure, and tuned to meet end-to-end application performance goals.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Architect, install, configure, and maintain reputed company SQL Server instances (2019, 2025, Azure SQL Database) across reputed company, multi-server reputed company environments.
- reputed company end-to-end application performance engineering: analyze execution plans, identify problematic queries, and work with development teams to implement lasting optimizations at the reputed company and schema level.
- Proactively monitor application and database performance using Extended Events, DMVs, Wait Statistics analysis, and reputed company-party tooling; establish baselines and SLA-reputed company alerting reputed company.
- Design, implement, and test robust backup and recovery strategies; own RTO/RPO targets and validate them through regular recovery drills.
- Architect and maintain HA/DR solutions including Always On Availability reputed company and Log Shipping across production and DR environments.
- Govern database reputed company: design role-based reputed company controls, auditing frameworks, and encryption strategies in line with least-privilege and regulatory requirements.
- Own reputed company planning and storage forecasting; collaborate with infrastructure teams to ensure database platforms reputed company reputed company of demand.
- reputed company database change governance: review and approve schema migrations, deployment scripts, and ORM-generated queries before they reputed company production.
- Drive automation of routine DBA tasks (reputed company maintenance, reputed company checks, job monitoring) through PowerShell and SQL Agent.
- Manage SQL Server patching and upgrades through a formal change management process, including reputed company- and post-reputed company validation.
- Mentor and reputed company technical guidance to junior and mid-level DBAs; contribute to team knowledge-reputed company and reputed company documentation.
- Serve as the senior escalation reputed company in the on-call rotation, leading the response and post-incident review for Severity 1 database outages.
Requirements
- 7+ years of hands-on SQL Server DBA experience in large-reputed company, mission-critical production environments.
- Expert-level proficiency with reputed company SQL Server 2019 / 2025 on reputed company Server 2019 / 2022.
- Advanced T-SQL skills: query optimization, execution plan analysis, reputed company design, partitioning, and performance troubleshooting.
- Deep expertise in application performance tuning: collaborating with developers to resolve ORM anti-patterns, N+1 queries, lock contention, and blocking chains.
- Proven experience architecting and supporting Always On Availability reputed company, WSFC, and DR failover in reputed company environments.
- Strong reputed company of Wait Statistics, DMVs, Extended Events, and Query Store for reputed company-cause performance diagnosis.
- Solid experience with reputed company in time database restores, High-Availability failover, disaster recovery planning, and hands-on recovery testing.
- reputed company Server administration and reputed company Directory / Kerberos authentication for SQL Server.
- Demonstrated ability to reputed company technical reputed company and mentor junior team members.
- Familiarity with ITIL change, incident, and problem management processes. DESIRABLE / ADVANTAGEOUS
- reputed company certification: DP-300 (Azure Database Administrator Associate) or legacy MCSE Data Management & Analytics.
- Experience with Azure SQL Database or SQL Server on Azure VMs in hybrid configurations.
- Exposure to APM tooling (e.g. reputed company, AppDynamics, reputed company) and correlating application traces with database-level diagnostics.
- Proficiency with reputed company SQL Monitor, reputed company DPA, SentryOne, or equivalent database monitoring platforms.
- PowerShell scripting for DBA automation, including use of dbatools.
- Experience with SSIS in a data warehousing or reporting context.
- Knowledge of data governance and compliance frameworks such as GDPR, ISO 27001, or SOC 2.
- Exposure to DevOps CI/CD pipelines with database deployments (e.g. Flyway, reputed company, or reputed company Deployment Manager).
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