SQL Database Administrator & architecture

TCS hiring!!!
Role: SQL DBA
Location: Bangalore
Experience: 10-15
Must Have:
Provide end-to-end architecture and engineering services for enterprise Microsoft SQL Server platforms, including high availability, disaster recovery, scalability, and resilience design.
• Deliver implementation and deployment services for SQL Server environments across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud infrastructures in alignment with organizational requirements and standards.
• Establish and maintain database platform standards, governance models, operational policies, and best practices to ensure consistency, reliability, and compliance.
• Assess emerging technologies, platform enhancements, and modernization opportunities to improve database performance, operational efficiency, and service capabilities.
• Manage installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, migrations, and lifecycle activities for SQL Server environments while minimizing operational risk and downtime.
• Provide database performance management services, including proactive monitoring, tuning, capacity planning, optimization, and resource utilization management.
• Implement and maintain backup, restore, recovery, and business continuity solutions to support service availability and data protection requirements.
• Enable automation and infrastructure standardization through scripting, orchestration, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices, including PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC).
• Deliver Level 3 technical support for complex database incidents, performance degradation, availability issues, and critical production escalations.
• Perform advanced troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and remediation for SQL Server failures, bottlenecks, and data-related issues.
• Coordinate with vendors, technology partners, and managed service providers for issue resolution, escalation management, and support case handling.
• Participate in major incident management processes and contribute to post-incident reviews, corrective actions, and service improvement initiatives.
• Drive Continual Service Improvement (CSI) activities focused on enhancing SQL platform stability, reliability, automation, and operational effectiveness.
• Monitor and report on platform health, service reliability, operational metrics, and performance indicators to ensure adherence to agreed service levels.
• Ensure compliance with organizational security policies, regulatory requirements, audit standards, and database security best practices.
• Develop, maintain, and govern operational documentation, including runbooks, architecture diagrams, configuration records, recovery procedures, and technical standards.
• Serve as the technical authority for database architecture, operational strategy, and solution design decisions across the SQL Server ecosystem.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, DevOps, and security teams to support integrated solution delivery and operational alignment.
• Provide advisory and consultation services to service owners and internal stakeholders on optimal utilization and management of database services.
• Coordinate operational activities and service delivery across Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, and third-party support organizations to ensure seamless support coverage.

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