Key Responsibilities

• Manage and operate large scale production database systems across multiple Azure regions.
• Provide direct operational support across all areas of the production database infrastructure including high availability, database replication, release management and disaster planning.
• Install, configure, and deploy MS SQL Server using automation and infrastructure as code
• Perform capacity planning, performance turning, monitoring, troubleshooting, patching and optimization of the databases.
• Assist in designing Backup, Recovery and DR strategies.
• Develop automation of the database processes, tasks, and procedures.
• Develop and maintain documentation on systems management and operational procedures.
• Follow operational policies and processes that are compliant with ITIL standards. Participate in change control procedures.
• Resolve critical infrastructure incidents as part of on call rotation
• Provide root cause analysis and/or proactively provide recommendations to prevent issues from surfacing
• Work with Engineering teams to optimize queries
• Stay up to date with the trends in the database industry. Use that knowledge to help shape our future database infrastructure.
• Support code or release deployment process
• Participate in on call rotation (24x7)
• Mentor Junior, or new DBA team members 

Required Experience/Skills

• 3+ Years’ Experience in a large scale, mission critical MS SQL Server environment
• Experience in performance tuning and troubleshooting
• Experience working with databases in the cloud (Azure preferred – specifically SQL Managed Instance and SQL Database)
• Installed and configured database servers (MS SQL 2016+) using various high availability technologies such as Availability Groups and Failover Cluster Instances.
• Experience working with multi-TB highly transactional databases
• Develop and adhere to strong security practices with regards to Authentication, Authorization and Encryption
• Takes an evidence-based approach to all troubleshooting and recommendations
• Strong communication skills.
• Ability to work varying hours, including evenings, weekends and holidays as required
• Ability to work in a fast pace and rapidly changing environment.
• Ability to multitask and work effectively on multiple projects simultaneously

Other Desirable Skills

• Experience automating infrastructure deployment using tools such as Ansible or Terraform
• Experience with supporting a multi-tenanted hosting infrastructure with thousands of customers
• Experience in other database systems such as MySQL Postgres, and flavors of NoSQL Databases (such as Cosmos DB, and Influx DB) 
• Working knowledge of Cloud infrastructure beyond the database (i.e., networking, security and access control, storage, cost optimization, etc.)
• Knowledge of Git and JIRA
• PowerShell, Linux, AWS, Redgate, AppDynamics, Azure Data factory, DataBricks, Grafana
• Experience with HITRUST, HIPPA Compliance and healthcare field.
• MCTS, MCITP Certification is a plus