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Sphera is a portfolio company of Blackstone, a U.S.-based alternative asset investment company that focuses on private equity, technology and innovation, and more. Blackstone businesses succeed through robust partnerships, a personalized approach and a commitment to exceptional performance with uncompromising integrity. Sphera and Blackstone are leaders in the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) space.

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Role Summary:
Owns the performance, availability, and reliability of Sphera's database platforms across our SaaS estate.



This is a hands-on role: troubleshooting, fine-tuning, indexing, and fragmentation management for MS-SQL Server across on-premises and Azure PaaS SQL environments. It also owns high availability and disaster recovery for database workloads — clustering, failover, and failback — plus advanced support for database-dependent SaaS applications hosted on Azure. Success here means deep MS-SQL Server expertise, strong command of Azure PaaS SQL and networking, and the ability to work closely with security, DevOps, application, and infrastructure teams.

Roles and Responsibilities:
• Own and operate MS-SQL Server across on-premises VMs, Azure IaaS SQL VMs, and Azure PaaS SQL (Azure SQL Database, Managed Instance) for production and non-production environments, with added exposure to PostgreSQL and MySQL where needed
• Own MS-SQL performance end to end — query optimization, execution plan analysis, indexing strategy

📌 Senior Database Administrator (Bengaluru)
🏢 Sphera
📍 Bengaluru