Role: Azure SQL DBA / Azure Database Administrator Client: Carnival Cruise Line

Key Responsibilities
**Administer and support Azure SQL Managed Instance, Azure SQL Database, and SQL Server on Azure VMs.*
* **Plan and execute database migrations between Azure SQL MI, Azure SQL Database, Azure VM SQL Server, and on-premises SQL Server.*
* **Manage database backup, restore, recovery, security, access, storage, capacity, and configuration.*
* **Monitor and tune SQL performance using Query Store, execution plans, DMVs, Extended Events, indexing, statistics, waits, blocking, and deadlock analysis.*
* **Troubleshoot production issues related to performance, connectivity, TempDB, storage, backups, database availability, and application/database interactions.*
* **Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for critical production incidents and implement corrective/preventive actions.*
* **Develop T-SQL and PowerShell automation for health checks, maintenance, database refreshes, monitoring, backup validation, and repetitive DBA activities.*
* **Maintain operational procedures, migration runbooks,



technical documentation, database standards, and security controls.*
* Required Skills **Strong hands-on experience with Azure SQL Managed Instance, Azure VM’s and Azure SQL Database.*
* **Strong knowledge of SQL performance tuning, Query Store, Extended Events, DMVs, indexing, locking/blocking, TempDB, and execution-plan analysis.*
* **Experience with backup/recovery, security, patching, upgrades, and database maintenance.*
* **Experience with Incident, Change, and Problem Management processes.*
* **Solid troubleshooting, communication, documentation, and stakeholder-management skills.*
* Support Model **24/7 production support for Azure SQL MI, Azure SQL Database, and SQL Server on Azure VM environments.*
* **Approximately two weeks of night shift support per month.*
* **Participation in production incidents, RCA, change implementation, database migrations, patching, maintenance, deployment support, and on-call activities.**

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