Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced MS SQL Server Database Administrator to join our support team. The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of hands-on experience managing, maintaining, and troubleshooting SQL Server environments in a production support capacity, ensuring high availability, performance, and data integrity across critical business systems.

Requirements
Key Responsibilities
- Provide L2/L3 production support for MS SQL Server databases (2016/2017/2019/2022), including on-call/rotational shift support
- Monitor database health, performance, and availability; proactively identify and resolve issues before they impact business operations
- Perform database installation, configuration, upgrades, and patching (service packs/cumulative updates)
- Manage backup and recovery strategies; perform database restores and disaster recovery drills
- Configure and maintain High Availability/Disaster Recovery solutions (Always On Availability Groups, Failover Clustering, Log Shipping, Replication, Mirroring)




- Perform performance tuning and query optimization (index management, execution plan analysis, statistics updates)
- Troubleshoot database-related incidents, deadlocks, blocking sessions, and connectivity issues
- Manage user access, security, roles, and permissions; ensure compliance with data security policies
- Handle SQL Server Agent jobs, maintenance plans, and job failures
- Perform capacity planning, storage management, and database growth monitoring
- Document runbooks, SOPs, and knowledge base articles for recurring issues
- Coordinate with application, infrastructure, and development teams to resolve cross-functional issues
- Support migration and upgrade projects (on-prem to on-prem, or on-prem to cloud - Azure SQL/AWS RDS, if applicable)
- Respond to and manage incidents/tickets within defined SLAs using ITSM tools (ServiceNow, JIRA, Remedy, etc.)

Required Skills & Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field

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