Senior Database Administrator

15 hours ago

Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India Reflections Info Systems Full time ₹ 25,00,000 - ₹ 40,00,000 per year

Introduction

We are looking for 8+years experienced candidates for this role.

Responsibilities include:

  • Optimize database queries to ensure fast and efficient data retrieval, particularly for complex or high-volume operations.
  • Design and implement effective indexing strategies to reduce query execution times and improve overall database performance.
  • Monitor and profile slow or inefficient queries and recommend best practices for rewriting or re-architecting queries.
  • Continuously analyze execution plans for SQL queries to identify bottlenecks and optimize them.
  • Database Maintenance: Schedule and execute regular maintenance tasks, including backups, consistency checks, and index rebuilding.
  • Health Monitoring: Implement automated monitoring systems to track database performance, availability, and critical parameters such as CPU usage, memory, disk I/O, and replication status.
  • Proactive Issue Resolution: Diagnose and resolve database issues (e.g., locking, deadlocks, data corruption) proactively, before they impact users or operations.
  • High Availability: Implement and manage database clustering, replication, and failover strategies to ensure high availability and disaster recovery (e.g., using tools like SQL Server Always On, Oracle RAC, MySQL Group Replication).
  • Capacity Planning: Monitor resource consumption and plan for growth to ensure the database can scale effectively with increasing data volume and transaction load.
  • Resource Optimization: Analyze and optimize resource usage (CPU, memory, disk, network) to reduce operational costs.
  • Licensing Management: Ensure that database licensing models are properly adhered to and identify opportunities for reducing licensing costs.
  • Cloud Cost Management: Use cost analysis tools (e.g., AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management) to monitor and optimize cloud database spend, identifying opportunities for right sizing or reserving instances.

Certifications :

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering or a related field
  • Microsoft SQL certifications (MTA Database, MCSA: SQL Server, MCSE: Data Management and Analytics) will be an advantage.

Primary Skills :

7+ years of experience in Microsoft SQL Server administration

Behavioral competencies

  • Communication
  • Teamwork
  • Digital Mindset
  • Operational Excellence
  • Analytical Ability
  • Customer Centricity
  • Business and Market Acumen
  • Empathy
  • Growth Mindset

Secondary Skills :

  • Experience in MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle database administration.
  • Exposure to Data Lake, Hadoop, and Azure technologies
  • Exposure to DevOps or ITIL

Job Details

Role:

Senior Database Administrator

Location :

Trivandrum/Kochi

Close Date :

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