"> Senior Database Administrator (DBA)

About QualMinds:

We at QualMinds design & develop world-class digital products and custom software for Startups, Scale- ups & Enterprises with our world-class engineering team. We assemble a great team of frontend, backend, full-stack, QA automation, UI/UX, DevOps, data science, machine learning, and agile experts to help our clients propel their pursuit of digital excellence.

Our engineering community at QualMinds is always passionate about building customer- centric software with the highest quality, performance, security, scalability, and lowest failure rates.

Position Summary

We are seeking a Senior Database Administrator (DBA) to lead the administration, optimization, security, and availability of mission-critical data platforms supporting enterprise SaaS applications, analytics, and customer-facing systems.

This role is responsible for maintaining highly available SQL Server environments while partnering with Development, DevOps, Data Engineering, and Product teams to ensure scalable, secure, and high-performing database systems. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable troubleshooting production incidents, designing HA/DR architectures, tuning complex workloads, and supporting cloud modernization initiatives.

Key Responsibilities Database Administration

- Administer and maintain Microsoft SQL Server environments across production, staging, and development.
- Manage Always On Availability Groups, Failover Cluster Instances, Replication, and Log Shipping.
- Perform installations, upgrades, migrations, and patch management.
- Manage backup, recovery, and disaster recovery processes.

Performance Optimization
- Monitor and tune database performance.
- Optimize query execution plans, indexes, blocking, deadlocks, TempDB, memory, and I/O.




- Partner with development teams to improve application performance and scalability.

Production Support
- Participate in an on-call production support rotation.
- Troubleshoot critical production incidents.
- Perform root cause analysis and implement preventative measures.
- Support database deployments and release management.

Security & Compliance
- Implement database security best practices.
- Manage permissions and role-based access controls.
- Support compliance and data governance requirements.
- Conduct vulnerability remediation and security audits.

Cloud & Modernization
- Support hybrid cloud database architectures.
- Manage SQL Server in cloud and virtualized infrastructure.
- Collaborate on Snowflake integrations and ETL workloads.
- Evaluate emerging database technologies.

Automation
- Develop PowerShell and T-SQL automation.
- Automate maintenance tasks and monitoring.
- Improve deployment pipelines and operational efficiencies.

Required Qualifications Experience
- 7+ years of SQL Server DBA experience.
- 3+ years supporting enterprise production environments.
- Experience supporting 24x7 mission-critical systems.

Technical Skills

SQL Server: SQL Server 2019 2025, T-SQL, Always On Availability Groups, Replication, Log Shipping, SSIS, SQL Agent

Performance: Query tuning, Index optimization, Execution plan analysis, Deadlock analysis, Extended Events, DMVs

High Availability: Backup and recovery, Disaster recovery planning,



Clustering, Database failover strategies

Infrastructure: Windows Server, PowerShell, IIS fundamentals, Storage and SAN concepts

Monitoring: Redgate SQL Monitor, SentryOne, SolarWinds DPA, New Relic, Grafana

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with Google Cloud Platform, Snowflake, Elasticsearch, Redis, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
- Experience supporting enterprise SaaS applications.
- Experience administering PostgreSQL and MySQL environments is a plus.
- Automotive industry experience preferred.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
- Knowledge of data warehousing concepts.

Professional Skills
- Robust analytical and troubleshooting abilities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to work effectively across Development, DevOps, Product, and Data Engineering teams.
- Strong sense of ownership and commitment to operational excellence.

Education
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, related field, or equivalent experience.
- Microsoft SQL certifications are a plus.

What Youll Work On
- Maintaining highly available database environments.
- Supporting high-volume transactional systems.
- Optimizing performance for enterprise applications.
- Improving database reliability, security, and scalability.
- Partnering with engineering teams to deliver robust and efficient data solutions.

Required Skills

SQL Snowflake

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📌 Senior Database Administrator (DBA) (Hyderabad)
🏢 QualMinds
📍 Hyderabad