Description
Primary Duties & Responsibilities
Administration
- Maintain SQL Server (IaaS SQL Instance, Azure SQL Managed Instance, Azure SQL DB) and PostgreSQL databases.
- Perform database installations, upgrades, patching, and migrations.
- Manage database provisioning and overall environment setup.
- Analyze and optimize slow-running queries and execution plans.
- Design, implement, and maintain effective indexing strategies.
- Resolve complex performance bottlenecks, blocking issues, and deadlocks.

Backup, Restore & Disaster Recovery
- Design and manage comprehensive backup strategies (Full, Differential, Log).
- Perform database restores and precise point-in-time recovery (PITR).
- Implement and routinely validate Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies
- High Availability (HA)
- Configure and manage Always On Availability Groups and Failover Clustering.

Monitoring & Automation
- Alerting: Implement proactive monitoring and alerting solutions.
- Scripting: Automate routine DBA tasks using scripting languages like PowerShell or Python.

Security & Compliance
- Access Control:



Manage database security protocols, including logins, roles, and granular permissions.
- Data Protection: Implement robust encryption and comprehensive auditing policies.

Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, or related fields.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience

Skills
- 10+ years of relevant experience in high volume transactional and reporting databases.
- Minimum experience of 2-3 years in any cloud environment.
- SQL Server database upgrade and migration experience is highly desired
- Experience in Production support, Project Support is must.
- Experience in using tools such as (Commvault, Avamar, Spotlight, Any ticketing tools)
- Experience in any DevOps CI/CD and configuration management tools like GitHub, Jenkins etc. is preferred
- Microsoft certification a plus
- Change management skills and ability to operate effectively in rapid paced envi

📌 SQL Server DBA (Hyderabad)
🏢 Coherent
📍 Hyderabad