Role Purpose

The Senior Database Administrator will own database reliability, availability, performance, security, recoverability, and operational standards across Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL environments.

This is a hands-on senior role for someone who can design and build database environments from scratch, troubleshoot complex production issues, guide clients and infrastructure partners, and establish consistent operational practices across projects.

The successful candidate must be capable of taking end-to-end ownership—from architecture and installation through monitoring, performance tuning, backup and recovery, high availability, maintenance, production support, and continuous improvement.

Primary Responsibilities

1. Microsoft SQL Server Architecture and Implementation

• Design, install, configure, patch, upgrade, and maintain enterprise SQL Server environments.

• Build SQL Server environments from the ground up, including instance configuration, storage layout, service accounts, ports, security, memory allocation, CPU settings, tempdb, and operational jobs.





• Design and implement Windows Server Failover Clustering and SQL Server Always On Availability Groups.

• Configure and troubleshoot availability replicas, synchronization modes, quorum, failover policies, endpoints, and Availability Group listeners.

• Define listener, DNS, IP, subnet, firewall, load-balancing, routing, and application-connectivity requirements with client infrastructure teams.

• Design multi-site, disaster-recovery, and read-only workload-routing solutions.

• Plan and execute controlled failover and disaster-recovery exercises.

• Support standalone, clustered, virtualized, on-premises, cloud, and hybrid SQL Server deployments.

• Conduct health checks and configuration comparisons across database nodes to identify inconsistencies in patch levels, memory, parallelism, storage, tempdb, and other settings.

2. SQL Server Performance Monitoring and Optimization

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📌 Senior Database Administrator – Microsoft SQL Server (Chennai)
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📍 Chennai