10+ years Key Responsibilities Manage, administer, and support MS-SQL Server 2012-2022 environments across development, QA, and production. Perform database performance tuning, query optimization, indexing, capacity planning, and troubleshooting. Manage backup, restore, disaster recovery, and high-availability solutions. Configure and support Always On Availability Groups, Failover Clustering, and Replication. Monitor database health, blocking, deadlocks, resource utilization, and SQL Server jobs. Manage database security including logins, users, roles, permissions, encryption, and auditing. Lead SQL Server upgrades, migrations, patching, and version upgrades from legacy environments to newer versions. Automate DBA activities using T-SQL and PowerShell. Provide production support and participate in 24x7 on-call/incident management as required. Collaborate with application, infrastructure, cloud, and development teams to resolve database issues. Required Skills 10+ years of hands-on SQL Server DBA experience. Strong experience across SQL Server 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2022. Expert knowledge of
T-SQL, SQL
Server internals, performance tuning, and troubleshooting. Strong experience with Always On, HA/DR, backup & recovery, replication, and database migrations. Proficiency with
SSMS, SQL
Server Agent, Extended Events/Profiler, and PowerShell. Experience supporting large-scale, mission-critical production databases. Strong understanding of database security, monitoring, and operational best practices.
Preferred:
Experience with Azure
SQL / SQL
Managed Instance, cloud database migration, Dynatrace/SCOM, and DBA automation.
