Our partner is looking for a Database Administrator based in India.

This role is focused on ensuring the stability, performance, and security of enterprise-grade Microsoft SQL Server database environments that support mission-critical business applications.

You will be responsible for monitoring, maintaining, and optimizing databases across development, staging, and production environments in a 24x7 operational setup.

The position involves hands-on administration, incident management, and performance tuning to ensure high availability and seamless system operations.

Administer, monitor, and support Microsoft SQL Server environments across production, staging, and development systems.

Ensure database availability, performance, security, and operational stability for business-critical applications.

Troubleshoot and resolve database issues including performance degradation, blocking, deadlocks, connectivity issues, and job failures.

Manage database maintenance tasks such as backups, restores, index optimization, integrity checks, and statistics updates.

Support Always On Availability Groups, replication, and high availability/disaster recovery configurations.

Manage database access using role-based access control and Active Directory, ensuring least-privilege enforcement.

Monitor database health using enterprise tools and proactively address performance or capacity issues.

Participate in incident management, change requests, patching cycles, and on-call rotational support.

Collaborate with infrastructure, application, and security teams during incidents, deployments, and audits.

Maintain accurate technical documentation and support root cause analysis for production issues.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.

- 2-5 years of experience in database administration or production support environments.




- Strong hands-on expertise in Microsoft SQL Server (2016/2019/2022).
- Experience with SQL Server Agent jobs, monitoring tools, alerts, and maintenance activities.
- Knowledge of backup and recovery strategies, performance tuning, and troubleshooting techniques.
- Understanding of transaction management, locking/blocking, and query performance optimization.
- Experience working in ITIL-based environments with incident, change, and release management processes.
- Exposure to production support operations, patching cycles, and on-call rotations.
- Flexible work arrangements including remote, hybrid, or on-site options depending on project needs.

Comprehensive healthcare coverage including medical, dental, and vision plans.

Paid vacation, holidays, and additional leave advantages.

Exposure to large-scale enterprise database environments and high-availability systems.

Continuous learning and technical development in database technologies and cloud-adjacent systems.

Inclusive, collaborative, and innovation-driven work culture.

Career growth within a global technology organization serving enterprise clients.

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📌 DBA / Database Administrator - SQL Server - fully remote (India)
🏢 Jobgether
📍 India