Sr. MS SQL DBA- Azure/Banking

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About the role

  • Sr. MS SQL DBA with Azure expertise for banking client. Focus on database support, migration, performance tuning, and incident resolution in a collaborative team.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and own technical resolutions for production database incidents, ensuring minimal downtime and operational continuity. Communicate complex technical issues clearly to stakeholders and business partners. Maintain compliance with organizational standards for change control, security policies, and data protection. Analyze recurring issues to identify opportunities for service improvements. Participate in on-call rotations, including weekends. Contribute to disaster recovery planning and testing. Install, configure, and maintain MSSQL and Oracle databases. Implement native security features. Develop and automate database monitoring, backup, and recovery procedures. Support high availability and disaster recovery strategies. Collaborate with solution design, database engineering, security teams, and vendors.

Requirements

  • 5-7 years of hands-on experience with Azure Cloud databases, particularly MSSQL, including cloud migrations. Proficiency in PostgreSQL for at least 2 years. Strong experience with database setup, installation, configuration, and troubleshooting. Expertise in query optimization, performance tuning, and monitoring. Sound knowledge of backup, restore, and recovery procedures. Familiarity with automation of database maintenance tasks. Experience with disaster recovery planning and high availability configurations such as RAC. Understanding of cloud security practices and compliance standards. Nice to Have: Experience with ServiceNow Ticketing System, SolarWind Performance Monitoring tools, Azure Certification, Financial services industry experience. Soft Skills: Strong critical thinking, excellent communication, team effectiveness, results-oriented, customer-focused, ability to thrive in fast-paced environments.

Job type

Contractor

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$71.01/hr – $85.21/hr

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

MSSQLAzureOraclePostgreSQLTDEAlways EncryptedData RedactionDatabase VaultRAC

Location requirements

Linkedin Recruiter PostTorontoOntario Toronto

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