KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Technical leadership for migrating existing Microsoft SQL Server and NoSQL Databases to Public Cloud.
• Migrating databases to GCP or any public cloud
• Development and ownership of migration processes, documentation, and tooling
• Expertly administer and manage mission-critical, complex, and high-volume Database Platforms in a 24/7 environment
• SQL Server administration, implementing best practices and resolving complex performance issues
• Setting up PostgreSQL, MySQL, and NoSQL DBs (MongoDB) its maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Adhere to cloud security standards or best practices to avoid security breaches and reduce system vulnerability.
• Scripting and Automation
• Implementation and support of AlwaysOn and Failover Clustering.
• Database support lifecycle activities.
• Collaborate cross function to resolve tickets.
• Collaborate with application stakeholders.
• Have exposure of working within Agile framework. 
• Administer, troubleshoot, and resolve failures and critical alerts.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• 12+ years of hands-on experience with leading design, refactoring, or migration of databases in cloud Infrastructures and services for at least one of Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google GCP (preferred)
• Experience maintaining and administering with CI/CD tools such as Ansible, Puppet, GitHub and Artifactory in a cloud environment and developing/writing scripts using advanced DevOps languages such as Python, PowerShell is a plus.
• Experience working with infrastructure as code such as Terraform, or equivalent is a plus.
• Experience with concepts, processes & tools required for cloud adoption including cloud security, governance, and integration.
• Experience with SQL Server AlwaysOn and Windows clustering.
• Experience with agile techniques and methods.
• Familiarity with user expectations for cloud Databases (to be able to design user centric engineering services – e.g., provisioning self-service workflow)
• Working knowledge on DevOps, Agile development processes, exploration and POCs
• Works well collaboratively across functional team boundaries.

Expert Level

• Data Platform (MS SQL) administration
• lwaysOn
• Failover Clustering
• PowerShell