Senior Team Lead | MS SQL | Bengaluru | Engineering | Hybrid Cloud Engineering

Senior Team Lead | Engineering, AI & Data – Engineering | MS SQL DBA

Location:  Bangalore

Shift (If Applicable) – 24*7 (Morning, Second & Night, with on-call support during weekends)

The team

Engineering helps empower and drive mission-critical solutions whether we need to modernize existing systems or implement new technology products and platforms. Through innovation, we improve financial performance, accelerate new digital businesses and fuel growth. Learn more about Engineering, AI and Data

Your work profile

MS-SQL DBA L2  with good knowledge on Always-ON, Clustering, Performance Tuning, PostgreSQL or MongoDB technology support is an added advantage.

• Providing 24* 7 database support including incidents, requests & changes.
• Providing on-call database support during week-ends & out of business hours.
• Provide 24x7 support for critical production systems.
• Strong knowledge on Production Database Operations & understanding the importance of BAU
• Good Knowledge on ITIL Framework
• Effective communication (Written & Verbal)
• Experience on Incident Mgt and managing Crises calls by engaging with Vendors & Clients
• Strong analysis skills, Problem Solving and Decision making
• Willing to accept/take responsibility and problem ownership
• Skill-up on new concepts, features and Open source technology and being Mentors
• Ability to work in a rapidly changing environment
• Planning and execution of PSU Patching & Upgradation of SQL Server (Legacy Mgt)
• Good Experience on automating PSU Patching, installations and other BAU tasks
• Experience in using Performance Monitor, SQL Profiler and optimizing the queries, tracing long running queries, blockings and deadlocks.
• Account Management (Login Creation, Deletion, Profile Modification) & managing Security/Audit parameters
• Knowledge on index de-fragmentation, re-indexing and update the index statistics
• Configuration & Monitoring High Availability, Log-Shipping, DB Mirroring, Replication, Clustering and Always-ON
• Periodical Backups of the database and timely recovery when required. Scheduling the automated backup jobs
• Scheduling, Monitoring and Trouble shooting SQL Agent Jobs/Autosys Maintenance Jobs & Maintenance Plans

Key skills required:

• Education : Any Bachelor’s or Master’s degree
• Must have good team working skills balanced with ability to work in shifts (24x7 on rotation basis) / ability to work alone and a positive attitude.

• Provide 24x7 support for critical production systems.
• Strong knowledge on Production Database Operations & understanding the importance of BAU
• Good Knowledge on ITIL Framework
• Effective communication (Written & Verbal)
• Experience on Incident Mgt and managing Crises calls by engaging with Vendors & Clients
• Good knowledge on Presentation skills with PPT and expert in Excel with functions & Macros
• Good Experience on Client projects/domain, End-to-End Project management, setting-up technology Roadmap
• Strong analysis skills, Problem Solving and Decision making
• Planning and execution of PSU Patching & Upgradation of SQL Server (Legacy Mgt)
• Good Experience on automating PSU Patching, installations and other BAU tasks
• Experience in using Performance Monitor, SQL Profiler and optimizing the queries, tracing long running queries, blockings and deadlocks.
• Account Management (Login Creation, Deletion, Profile Modification) & managing Security/Audit parameters
• Knowledge on index de-fragmentation, re-indexing and update the index statistics
• Configuration & Monitoring High Availability, Log-Shipping, DB Mirroring, Replication, Clustering and Always-ON
• Periodical Backups of the database and timely recovery when required. Scheduling the automated backup jobs
• Scheduling, Monitoring and Trouble shooting SQL Agent Jobs/Autosys Maintenance Jobs & Maintenance Plans
• Trouble Shooting and fixing Data corruption (Page, table level)
• Preparing/Updating SOPs documents (Technical & Operational)

Good to have:

• Experience of handling very large environment, min 500+ SQL Instances and TB's of database size