Senior Azure SQL DBA – SQL Server, Performance Tuning & Cloud Database Administration

Senior Azure SQL DBA – SQL Server, Performance Tuning & Cloud Database Administration Your Responsibilities Administer and support SQL Server across on-premises, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines. Lead performance diagnostics and tuning using Query Store, execution plans, Dynamic Management Views, Extended Events, wait statistics, Perf.

Mon, SQL Profiler, and Azure monitoring. Optimize complex T-SQL, stored procedures, indexing, statistics, partitioning, memory, TempDB, parallelism, locking, blocking, deadlocks, CPU, storage I/O, and transaction logs. Detect query-plan regressions and workload bottlenecks, establish performance baselines and capacity forecasts, and validate measurable improvements.

Govern Azure SQL automatic tuning and Database Advisor recommendations, including production safeguards and rollback readiness. Design and support high availability and disaster recovery using Always On availability groups, failover groups, clustering, replication, log shipping, backup, restore, and point-in-time recovery.

Plan and execute database migrations, upgrades, patching, consolidation, modernization, and cloud adoption with minimal disruption. Manage Azure SQL service tiers, elastic pools, scaling, geo-replication, private connectivity, firewall rules, and cost-performance optimization. Implement least-privilege access, Microsoft Entra authentication, managed identities, encryption, auditing, vulnerability remediation, secrets management, and compliance controls.

Automate provisioning, configuration, health checks, maintenance, backup validation, and reporting with Power. Shell, T-SQL, Azure CLI, and infrastructure-as-code practices. Own P1/P2 incidents, outages, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, vendor escalations, and stakeholder communications. Maintain standards, runbooks, recovery procedures, dashboards, and knowledge articles; mentor L1/L2 teams and support change and release readiness.

Your Profile

Essential Skills/Knowledge/Experience 8–14 years of relevant database administration experience, with strong L3 MSSQL and Azure DBA expertise. Advanced hands-on experience with Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines. Deep knowledge of Query Store, performance monitoring, execution