Description

You will own the administration and reliability of large-scale Microsoft SQL Server estates supporting mission-critical production workloads.

This role is on-site.

Responsibilities

• Manage SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery, including Always On Availability Groups, failover validation, and strict RTO/RPO adherence.
• Lead Sev-1 and Sev-2 production incident response, rapid diagnosis, Major Incident bridge participation, and Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Perform advanced performance engineering using execution plan analysis, wait-stat diagnostics, indexing strategies, and blocking/deadlock resolution.
• Ensure recoverability assurance through policy-driven backups, restore testing, and maintaining audit-ready recovery evidence.
• Drive automation and standardization for repetitive operational workloads such as access, backups, jobs, patching, and provisioning.

Required Skills

• 5+ years of hands-on experience administering Microsoft SQL Server in production environments.
• Expertise in SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, failover clustering, and DR execution.
• Proficiency with enterprise monitoring tools: AppDynamics, Splunk, Nagios, and SCOM.
• Strong knowledge of SQL Server telemetry, SSMS, and SQL Central Management Server.
• Experience with ServiceNow AIOps, Event Manager, event correlation, and anomaly detection.
• Operational experience in security- and compliance-driven environments (SOX, access governance, encryption).
• Proficiency in Linux (Redhat) and Windows server administration.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with predictive incident management and policy-controlled automation within ServiceNow.

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree