Expert Database Administrator

Description

**Ciklum** is looking for an **Expert Database Administrator** **to join our team full-time in India.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

**About the role**:
As an Expert Database Administrator, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow.

**Responsibilities**:

- Database administrators are responsible for troubleshooting and resolving issues related to Azure databases
- This includes diagnosing connectivity problems, monitoring resource utilization, and analyzing query performance
- Manage Azure databases and ensuring their performance, security, and availability

**Requirements**:

- Has 5+ years of experience in DBA, and support in Azure DB, Postgres, Oracle & Maria DB
- Experience in troubleshooting and resolving database integrity issues, performance issues, blocking and deadlocking issues, replicationlog shipping issues, connectivity issues, security issues etc.
- Experience in Performance Tuning, Query Optimization, using Performance Monitor, SQL Profile
- Troubleshoot SQL Server related CPU,memory,I/O, disk space and other resource contention
- Strong knowledge of backups, restores, recovery models, database shrink operations, DBCC commands, Clustering, Database mirroring, Replication. Knowledge of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options
- Experience in implementing operational automation
- Strong knowledge of how indexes, index management, integrity checks. How statistics work, how indexes are stored, how they can be created and managed effectively
- Knowledge of Azuretools (Profiler, DTA, SSMS, SAC, SSCM, PerfMon, DMVs, system sprocs & other terrible words)
- Documentation skills for processes and procedures ( creating KBs, runbooks, topology etc )
- Good command of English

Desirable
- Knowledge of UK and/or Euro payment scheme
- Experience with micro service architecture projects
- Experience of cloud migration programs
- Hand-on experience with Docker

Personal skills
- Good analytical skills
- Good team player, motivated to develop and solve complex tasks
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills
- Self-motivated, self-disciplined and result-oriented
- Strong attention to details and accuracy

What's in it for you
- Care: your mental and physical health is our priority. We ensure comprehensive company-paid medical insurance, as well as financial and legal consultation
- Tailored education path: boost your skills and knowledge with our regular internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy licence, language courses and company-paid certifications
- Growth environment: share your experience and level up your expertise with a community of skilled professionals, locally and globally
- Flexibility: hybrid work mode at Chennai or Pune
- Opportunities: we value our specialists and always find the best options for them. Our Resourcing Team helps change a project if needed to help you grow, excel professionally and fulfil your potential
- Global impact: work on large-scale projects that redefine industries with international and fast-growing clients
- Welcoming environment: feel empowered with a friendly team, open-door policy, informal atmosphere within the company and regular team-building events

**About us**:
India is a strategic growth market for Ciklum.
Be a part of a big story created right now. Lets grow our delivery center in India together Boost your skills and knowledge: create and innovate with like-minded professionals — all of that within a global company with a local spirit and start-up soul.
Supported by Recognize Partners and expanding globally, we will engineer the experiences of tomorrow

**Be bold, not bored**

Experiences of tomorrow. Engineered together

Interested already?