DBA (Snowflake+SQL Server+Azure)

Snowflake Administration

• Manage Snowflake security, RBAC, user provisioning, and access governance.
  
• Monitor and optimize warehouse performance, compute utilization, and costs.
  
• Support data ingestion pipelines using Snowpipe, Streams, Tasks, Dynamic Tables, and external stages.
  
• Implement security controls including masking policies, row-level security, and network policies.
  
• Manage backup, recovery, replication, failover, and disaster recovery processes.
  
• Support integrations with Microsoft Azure, Azure Data Factory, Power BI, and Microsoft Fabric.
  
• Conduct performance tuning and query optimization activities.
  

SQL Server Administration

• Administer SQL Server environments across on-premises and Azure.
  
• Perform installations, patching, upgrades, migrations, and configurations.
  
• Manage backup, restore, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions.
  
• Troubleshoot performance issues using Query Store, execution plans, indexing strategies, and monitoring tools.
  
• Configure and maintain SQL Server security, auditing, encryption, and compliance controls.
  
• Support Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and SQL Server on Azure VMs.
  

Azure & Automation

• Manage database-related Azure resources and services.
  
• Configure Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Key Vault, networking, and private endpoints.
  
• Develop automation scripts using PowerShell, T-SQL, Azure CLI, and Python.
  
• Support Infrastructure as Code implementations using Bicep, ARM templates, and Azure DevOps pipelines.
  

Monitoring & Operations

• Monitor database health, availability, capacity, and security.
  
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and problem management.
  
• Maintain runbooks, SOPs, architecture documentation, and operational standards.
  
• Collaborate with stakeholders to improve database reliability and operational efficiency. 
  

Required Qualifications

Technical Skills

• 3 to 5 years of hands-on Database Administration experience.
  
• 2+ years of Snowflake administration experience in production environments.
  
• Strong experience with:
  • Microsoft SQL Server (2016-2022)
    
  • Azure SQL Database
    
  • Azure SQL Managed Instance
    
  • SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
    
• Strong proficiency in:
  • T-SQL
    
  • PowerShell
    
  • Azure CLI
    
  • Python scripting
    
• Experience with:
  • Azure Monitor
    
  • Log Analytics
    
  • Microsoft Entra ID
    
  • Azure Key Vault
    
  • Azure DevOps
    
  • Microsoft 365 Collaboration Suite (Teams, SharePoint, Outlook)
    
• Knowledge of High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions including:
  • Always On Availability Groups
    
  • Failover Clustering
    
  • Geo-Replication
    
  • Backup and Recovery strategies.
    

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience administering MySQL and PostgreSQL environments.
  
• Experience managing containerized databases using Docker and Docker Compose.
  
• Familiarity with Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
  
• Exposure to Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory, and data integration platforms.
  
• Experience with SQL monitoring tools such as SQL Sentry or Redgate