Senior Azure SQL DBA – SQL Server, Performance Tuning & Cloud Database Administration
- Montreal, QC, Canada
Full-time
Applications open in a new tab.
Job details
- Job type
- Full-time
- Apply by
- Experience
- 8–14 years of relevant database administration experience, with strong L3 MSSQL and Azure DBA expertise.
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
Senior Azure SQL DBA – SQL Server, Performance Tuning & Cloud Database Administration
Your Responsibilities
- Administer and support SQL Server across on-premises, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines.
- Lead performance diagnostics and tuning using Query Store, execution plans, Dynamic Management Views, Extended Events, wait statistics, PerfMon, SQL Profiler, and Azure monitoring.
- Optimize complex T-SQL, stored procedures, indexing, statistics, partitioning, memory, TempDB, parallelism, locking, blocking, deadlocks, CPU, storage I/O, and transaction logs.
- Detect query-plan regressions and workload bottlenecks, establish performance baselines and capacity forecasts, and validate measurable improvements.
- Govern Azure SQL automatic tuning and Database Advisor recommendations, including production safeguards and rollback readiness.
- Design and support high availability and disaster recovery using Always On availability groups, failover groups, clustering, replication, log shipping, backup, restore, and point-in-time recovery.
- Plan and execute database migrations, upgrades, patching, consolidation, modernization, and cloud adoption with minimal disruption.
- Manage Azure SQL service tiers, elastic pools, scaling, geo-replication, private connectivity, firewall rules, and cost-performance optimization.
- Implement least-privilege access, Microsoft Entra authentication, managed identities, encryption, auditing, vulnerability remediation, secrets management, and compliance controls.
- Automate provisioning, configuration, health checks, maintenance, backup validation, and reporting with PowerShell, T-SQL, Azure CLI, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
- Own P1/P2 incidents, outages, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, vendor escalations, and stakeholder communications.
- Maintain standards, runbooks, recovery procedures, dashboards, and knowledge articles; mentor L1/L2 teams and support change and release readiness.
Your Profile
Essential Skills/Knowledge/Experience
- 8–14 years of relevant database administration experience, with strong L3 MSSQL and Azure DBA expertise.
- Advanced hands-on experience with Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines.
- Deep knowledge of Query Store, performance monitoring, execution
More about this job
Responsibilities
Administer SQL Server and Azure SQL environments, diagnose and tune performance, manage high availability and disaster recovery, and lead database migrations, upgrades, and cloud adoption. Secure and automate database operations, optimize Azure costs and capacity, resolve critical incidents, and maintain operational documentation while mentoring support teams.
Requirements
Requires 8–14 years of relevant database administration experience, with strong L3 Microsoft SQL Server and Azure DBA expertise. Candidates need advanced hands-on experience with SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines, along with deep performance monitoring and tuning knowledge.
Skills
- Microsoft SQL Server Administration
- Azure SQL Database
- Azure SQL Managed Instance
- SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
- Performance Tuning
- Query Store
- T-SQL
- High Availability and Disaster Recovery
- Database Migration
- Azure Monitoring
- PowerShell
- Azure CLI
- Infrastructure as Code
- Database Security
- Incident Management
- Capacity Planning
Visa sponsorship
Not detected in the job text
Categories
- Technology
- Data & Analytics
- Software
- Management & Leadership
Keywords
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Azure SQL Database
- Azure SQL Managed Instance
- SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
- Query Store
- Execution Plans
- Dynamic Management Views
- Extended Events
- Wait Statistics
- PerfMon
- SQL Profiler
- T-SQL
- Stored Procedures
- Indexing
- Partitioning
- TempDB
- Always On Availability Groups
- Failover Groups
- Clustering
- Replication
- Log Shipping
- Point-in-Time Recovery
- Geo-Replication
- Microsoft Entra Authentication
- Managed Identities
- PowerShell
- Azure CLI
- Infrastructure as Code
- Performance Tuning
- Disaster Recovery