Oracle Database Administrator

About Company :

They balance innovation with an open, friendly culture and the backing of a long-established parent company, known for its ethical reputation. We guide customers from what's now to what's next by unlocking the value of their data and applications to solve their digital challenges, achieving outcomes that benefit both business and society.

About Client:

Our client is a global digital solutions and technology consulting company headquartered in Mumbai, India. The company generates annual revenue of over $4.29 billion (35,517 crore), reflecting a 4.4% year-over-year growth in USD terms. It has a workforce of around 86,000 professionals operating in more than 40 countries and serves a global client base of over 700 organizations.

Our client operates across several major industry sectors, including Banking, Financial Services & Insurance (BFSI), Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT), Healthcare & Life Sciences, and Manufacturing & Consumer. In the past year, the company achieved a net profit of $553.4 million (4,584.6 crore), marking a 1.4% increase from the previous year. It also recorded a strong order inflow of $5.6 billion, up 15.7% year-over-year, highlighting growing demand across its service lines.

Key focus areas include Digital Transformation, Enterprise AI, Data & Analytics, and Product Engineeringreflecting its strategic commitment to driving innovation and value for clients across industries.

Job Title: Lead Cloud Database Administrator

Location: Pan India

Experience: 10+ yrs

Job Type: Contract to hire(Min 1+ yr)

Notice Period: Immediate joiners

Job Description:

• Job Description Senior/Lead Cloud Database Administrator (Azure & SQL Server)
• Own endtoend administration of MS SQL Server (20002022) across Azure and hybrid estates, ensuring reliability, security, and performance.
• Plan and execute database migrations from onpremises to Azure (VMs, Azure SQL, Managed Instance), including validation and rollback strategies.
• Implement and manage HA/DR solutions: Always On, clustering, mirroring, replication, and log shipping; design and test DR drills and georeplication.
• Drive backup/restore strategy using enterprise tools (e.g., Veritas, Networker, Rubrik, TINA) and enforce RPO/RTO objectives.
• Perform performance tuning & query optimization (indexing, statistics, blocking/deadlocks analysis), plus capacity planning and space management.
• Administer Azure features (automatic tuning, monitoring, alerts) and maintain security baselines (Azure AD auth, auditing, threat detection, data masking).
• Support AWS workloads (EC2 provisioning, RDS monitoring with CloudWatch) and coordinate crosscloud operations; exposure to GCP is a plus.
• Establish and maintain database security (roles, privileges), apply Windows & SQL security patches, and remediate vulnerabilities in line with policy.
• Automate routine operations with scripting; monitor health using Nagios, Tivoli, SolarWinds, SCOM, and ITSM processes for incidents/changes.
• Collaborate with App/SRE teams on design & architecture, reviews, release management (QA/UAT/Prod), and production issue resolution within SLAs.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation (runbooks, standards, SOPs), and mentor junior DBAs; contribute to process improvements and automation.