Job Purpose | Database Administrator job consist of installation, database creation, performance monitoring, Data security, troubleshooting, Daily backup tracking, Database Migration & Upgrade, New environment creation, Database Compliance deployment, Issue trouble shooting, Performance/Impact analysis, Database alert tracking, incident tracking, Change Management tracking and data extractions for MIS Reporting/Analysis |
Duties and Responsibilities | A- Minimum required Accountabilities for this role • Provide 24x7 support for mission critical production databases. • Excellent written and verbal communication • MS-SQL Database Installation/Configuration, monitoring, managing, and maintaining production databases. • MS-SQL database migration and upgrade/patching • New environment creation (on Azure and AWS) • Experience of DB Backup/Restoration and Disaster Recovery methods • Implementing replication solutions such as Always-on, setup monitoring tools, optimizing resources, etc. • Tracing of daily backups/incidents/database alerts/Governance & compliance/Support to DR drill/database growth etc • SQL query tuning hands-on experience • Data Governance, Data security and compliance. • Implementation various database automation techniques to reduce operational overhead. • Experience in installing, managing, monitoring 2014/2016/2017/2019, & 2022 • Managing On-premises SQL Servers, and Azure Cloud VM services • Monitor the database health using monitoring tools. • Experience in SQL Server DB Creation, User creation and Permissions, Object creation etc. B- Additional Accountabilities pertaining to the role |
Key Decisions / Dimensions | • Only Critical servers are being monitored with existing team member |
Major Challenges | • No of Database servers to be monitored are increased up to 100+ • No of compliance points are 65 to be maintained on all 100+ Servers. • No consistent support from Off-Role team • Maintaining 100% uptime on all database servers • Regular database patching and VA resolution MoM |
Required Qualifications and Experience | a) Qualifications Minimum qualification required is B.E./B.Tech/BSC-IT with minimum of 2.5+ Years of experience in MSSQL DBA • Work Experience • Should have good analytical and problem-solving skills. • Should have strong ownership. • Should have good communication skills. • RDBMS: Experience in MS SQL Server 2014/2016/2017/2019, & knowledge of Postgres is advantage • Operating Systems: Experience in Windows 2008 R2/2012/2016/2019 Server, & Linux RedHat, CentOS, Debian • Operating Systems: Experience in Windows 2008 R2/2012/2016/2019 Server, & Linux RedHat • Backup and Recovery: Experience of DB Backup and Disaster Recovery methods, with DR drill • HA/DR: Knowledge of HA\DR concepts. |