Project Role : Application Support Engineer

Project Role Description : Act as software detectives, provide a dynamic service identifying and solving issues within multiple components of critical business systems.

Must have skills : Database Management

Good to have skills : NA

Minimum 2 Year(s) Of Experience Is Required

Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education

Summary

We are seeking a skilled MS SQL Server Administrator with 4+ years of experience in managing and supporting enterprise SQL Server environments. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in SQL Server administration, backup & recovery, performance tuning, database maintenance, troubleshooting, security management, and high availability technologies. The role involves supporting business-critical production databases in a 24x7 environment while ensuring database availability, reliability, and performance.

Roles &

- Responsibilities:

Database Administration

Install, configure, upgrade, and patch SQL Server 2016/2019/2022 instances.

Manage databases across Development, UAT, Pre-Production, and Production environments.

Create and maintain databases, users, roles, and permissions.

Perform database refreshes and environment cloning activities.

Manage database growth, storage allocation, and capacity planning.

Backup &

- Recovery

Configure and monitor Full, Differential, and Transaction Log backups.

Perform database restore and recovery activities during incidents and DR testing.

Validate backup integrity and recovery readiness.

Support DR exercises and recovery validation.

Performance &

- Monitoring

Monitor database health, availability, and performance.

Identify and resolve blocking, deadlocks, long-running queries, and resource bottlenecks.

Perform index maintenance, statistics updates,



and database integrity checks.

Analyze SQL Server CPU, memory, I/O, and wait statistics.

High Availability &

- Disaster Recovery

Administer and support

- Always On Availability Groups
- SQL Failover Clusters
- Log Shipping
- Database Mirroring
- Replication

Participate in failover and failback testing activities. Security &
- Compliance

Implement SQL Server security standards and access controls.

Manage AD Integrated Authentication and SQL Logins.

Review permissions and enforce least-privilege access.

Support audit, compliance, and vulnerability remediation activities.

Incident &

- Change Management

Troubleshoot database incidents and service requests.

Participate in major incident resolution and RCA activities.

Execute production changes following ITIL processes.

Maintain operational documentation and runbooks.

Required Technical Skills

Database Platforms

Microsoft SQL Server 2016 / 2019 / 2022

Azure SQL Database (Good to Have)

Azure Managed Instance (Good to Have)

Preferred Certifications

Microsoft Azure Database Administrator Associate (DP-300)

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

ITIL Foundation Certification

Qualified &

- Technical Skills:

- Must To Have Skills: Proficiency in Database Management.
- Experience in database performance tuning and optimization.
- Knowledge of backup and recovery procedures for database systems.
- Familiarity with database security best practices and access controls.
- Ability to troubleshoot database connectivity and integrity issues.
- Understanding of database replication and high availability concepts.

Additional Information
- The candidate should have minimum 2 years of experience in Database Management.
- This position is based at our Bengaluru office.
- A 15 years full time education is required.

📌 Application Support Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Accenture in India
📍 Bengaluru