Reflections Info Systems - Senior Database Administrator - SQL Server

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

Primary Skills :

- 8+ years of experience in Microsoft SQL Server administration.

Job Location : Cochin/Trivandrum (Hybrid Mode).

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., 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.