Role Summary
Maintain the availability, performance, security, recoverability, and operational health of enterprise data platforms supporting Staples Digital Solutions. This role owns production and non-production database and data-platform operations, including backup and recovery, database refreshes, patching, upgrades, performance monitoring, production deployments, incident response, application troubleshooting, documentation, and operational automation.

This position represents a broad production data-platform operations role rather than a traditional SQL Server-only DBA position. The successful candidate should be comfortable owning multiple data technologies, supporting business-critical production systems, performing hands-on troubleshooting, participating in maintenance and release activities, and continuously improving operational processes through documentation and automation.

Duties & Responsibilities
- Perform daily operational health checks across database and data-platform environments, proactively identifying availability, capacity, performance, backup,



replication, and infrastructure issues.
- Configure, monitor, validate, execute, and document database backup, recovery, and restore-testing processes according to established recovery requirements.
- Build, maintain, and execute non-production database refresh processes, including production-to-lower-setting refreshes, data sanitation, workplace-specific data preservation, security restoration, validation, and troubleshooting.
- Plan, test, coordinate, and execute platform patching and upgrades for SQL Server, SSAS, MongoDB, and supporting third-party database tools; coordinate with infrastructure teams during Windows Server maintenance and upgrades.
- Monitor database and platform performance and capacity, recommending improvements involving indexing, query performance, memory, storage, configuration, and platform-specific tuning.
- Support development and application teams by reviewing and

📌 Senior Lead Database Administrator (Chennai)
🏢 Staples India Business Innovation Hub Private
📍 Chennai