Position : Senior Database Engineer / DBA.

Experience : 7+ Years.

Location : Coimbatore / Hybrid (Remote option available).

Employment Type : Contract.

Joining : Immediate or within 30 days preferred.

Core Focus : Microsoft SQL Server Administration, Always On Availability Groups, Performance Tuning, Database Security, Disaster Recovery, Production Database Operations, High Availability, and Multi-Terabyte Database Management.

Tools & Platforms : Microsoft SQL Server (HA / Clustered), Always On Availability Groups (AGs), TDE & Auditing, T-SQL, Partitioning & Archiving, PowerShell, Snowflake / Redshift / AWS Aurora (Nice to Have).

About The Role :

We are looking for a Senior Database Engineer / DBA to own a large, multi-terabyte Microsoft SQL Server environment running in a highly available, clustered configuration. This is a hands-on production database role supporting a live, customer-facing SaaS platform. The role focuses on maintaining database availability, performance, security, and reliability. This is not an analytics or reporting role. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience managing SQL Server databases in a 24x7 production environment, troubleshooting complex database issues, maintaining Always On Availability Groups, and ensuring business continuity through effective disaster recovery practices.

Key Responsibilities :

- Own and maintain the production SQL Server environment in an Always On Availability Group configuration.

- Handle failover operations, synchronization delay troubleshooting, and read replica load management.

- Maintain database availability and ensure the stability of production database environments.

- Manage SQL Server alerts and provide on-call coverage for production database operations.

- Lead incident response and root cause analysis for production database issues.

- Troubleshoot query plan regressions, TempDB contention, deadlocks, and blocking issues.

- Perform index and statistics maintenance to ensure optimal database performance.

- Review developers' T-SQL queries and schema changes before deployment.

- Maintain database security through Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), auditing, and certificate and key rotation.

- Perform quarterly cumulative update patching across database environments.

- Manage partitioning and archiving on multi-terabyte databases without impacting production performance.

- Design, implement, and test disaster recovery strategies for SQL Server environments.

Must-Have Requirements :

- 7+ years of hands-on Microsoft SQL Server DBA experience in a 24x7 production environment.

- 3+ years of direct experience with Always On Availability Groups.

- Experience managing multi-terabyte production databases.

- Experience leading incident response and root cause analysis.

- Strong experience with database security practices, including TDE, auditing, and certificate rotation.

- Hands-on experience with SQL Server performance tuning and query optimization.

- Experience designing and testing disaster recovery strategies.

- English fluency sufficient for real-time incident communication, with meaningful business-hours overlap with Pacific time.

What We Offer :

- Flexible work environment with Coimbatore office, hybrid, and remote options.

- Paid holidays and flexible time off.

- Medical insurance coverage of up to 4 lakh per person for self and family.

- Opportunities to support production infrastructure for global clients.