Job Title:  Manager | MS SQL | Bengaluru | Engineering

Your potential, unleashed.

India’s impact on the global economy has increased at an exponential rate and Deloitte presents an opportunity to unleash and realize your potential amongst cutting edge leaders, and organizations shaping the future of the region, and indeed, the world beyond.

At Deloitte, your whole self to work, every day. Combine that with our drive to propel with purpose and you have the perfect playground to collaborate, innovate, grow, and make an impact that matters.

The team

The Deloitte South Asia strategic growth team serves as a central pillar driving growth and transformation within DSA, spanning several business lines and various technology functions.  We are established as a centralized team collaborating across consulting, implementation, and operation to maintain and enhance client value offerings and services. We innovate conventional approaches, leveraging Deloitte technology, differentiated domain expertise, intellectual property, talent, and capacity to embed continuous advantage and deliver enhanced business value.

In this team, our focus is on catering to the unique needs and preferences of clients in the South Asia region. Your role within this dynamic team is essential for establishing networks and relationships across the client stakeholder ecosystem and ensuring service fulfillment. Additionally, you will collaborate closely with other Deloitte leadership and stakeholders dedicated to the client. Your contributions will involve nurturing new and existing relationships, supporting presales life cycles, and playing a pivotal role in driving the success of DSA business growth for the specific client.

You will be part of a global organization that is making a measurable impact that matters every day.

Your work profile

We’re looking for a Senior Microsoft SQL Server DBA to operate, secure, and optimize enterprise SQL platforms running on a Software‑Defined Data Center (SDDC). You will own HA/DR, backup & recovery, performance tuning, capacity planning, and patching/upgrades for SQL Server instances and clusters running on VMware vSphere/vSAN/NSX‑T (and hybrid, as applicable). The role partners closely with app, infra, and security teams to deliver high availability, compliance, and cost‑efficient database services.

Key Responsibilities

Database Operations & Reliability

• Administer SQL Server 2012/2016/2017/2019/2022 across standalone, clustered, and AG topologies.
• Own HA/DR design and operations: Always On Availability Groups, Failover Cluster Instances (FCI), Log Shipping, Replication (Transactional/Snapshot), and geo‑DR patterns.
• Implement and validate backup & recovery (full/diff/log), point‑in‑time restore, and recovery runbooks using enterprise tools (e.g., Veeam, Commvault, Rubrik, Cohesity) and native SQL backups.
• Lead patching, CU/Service Pack rollouts, version/edition upgrades, migration planning (side‑by‑side, rolling upgrades), and decommissioning with data retention controls.

Performance Engineering

• Proactively monitor and tune workloads, queries, indexes, and statistics; leverage Query Store, Extended Events, DMVs, execution plans, baseline metrics.
• Implement smart indexing strategies (covering, filtered, columnstore), statistics management, and parameter sniffing mitigations.
• Right‑size server/VM resources (vCPU, memory, storage IOPS/latency) and coordinate with SDDC teams for contention mitigation (NUMA, reservations, storage policy).

SDDC/Virtualization Alignment

• Operate SQL workloads on VMware vSphere/ESXi/vCenter, align with vSAN/SAN/NAS storage policies (latency, throughput, RW patterns), and NSX‑T networking (segments, micro‑segmentation).
• Participate in capacity planning (compute, memory, IOPS), placement policies (anti‑affinity for AG replicas), and change management with infra teams.
• Support DR with SRM/HCX where applicable, and document RPO/RTO‑backed runbooks.

Security, Compliance & Governance

• Implement TDE, backup encryption, row/column‑level security, Always Encrypted, TLS certs; manage Logins/Users/Roles, least privilege, and separation of duties.
• Enforce auditing (SQL Audit, server‑level and DB‑level), data classification/retention policies, and compliance alignment (e.g., CIS, organizational baselines).
• Remediate vulnerabilities (CVE tracking), secure endpoints, and maintain privileged access processes.

Data Services & Platform Integration

• Support SSIS/SSRS/SSAS (as applicable), Linked Servers, Agent Jobs, Database Mail, and alerts.
• Partner with app teams on schema design, deployment pipelines (CI/CD), and change reviews.
• Contribute to automation using PowerShell (dbatools), T‑SQL, Ansible, or pipelines (Git, Azure DevOps/Jenkins/GitLab).

Observability & Operations Excellence

• Implement and tune monitoring/alerting with tools like SQL Sentry/SentryOne, Redgate, Idera (SQL DM), SolarWinds DPA, SCOM, or Prometheus exporters + Grafana.
• Maintain SOPs, runbooks, KBs, CMDB entries, and architecture/DR diagrams.
• Provide L2/L3 support, lead incident/problem/change (ITIL) processes, drive RCAs and preventive actions, and participate in on‑call rotation.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 7–10 years hands‑on MS SQL Server administration in enterprise environments.
• Proven expertise in:
• HA/DR: Always On AGs, FCI, Log Shipping, Replication; DR drills and failover runbooks.
• Performance tuning: Query tuning, indexing, statistics, wait analysis, baselining, Extended Events/Query Store.
• Backup/Recovery: Strategy design, PITR, validation, restore testing; enterprise backup suites and native SQL.
• Security: TDE, encryption in transit, auditing, RBAC, credential management, data masking/classification.
• SDDC operations: Running SQL on VMware vSphere; storage/network considerations (vSAN/SAN/NAS, VLANs/segments, micro‑segmentation).
• Automation & Scripting: PowerShell, T‑SQL; version control with Git.
• Patching/Upgrades/Migrations with minimal downtime approaches.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and stakeholder communication skills; ITIL exposure.

Nice‑to‑Have / Preferred

• Experience with Azure SQL (IaaS SQL on Azure, Azure SQL MI/DB) or hybrid connectivity.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes/Containers (running SQL on Windows/Linux containers where appropriate).
• Exposure to DevOps for DB (schema drift detection, Redgate toolchain, automated deployments).
• Knowledge of storage performance engineering (queue depth, IOPS/throughput, write‑log latency).
• Certifications: Microsoft DP‑300 (Administering Relational Databases on Microsoft Azure), legacy MCSE: Data Management & Analytics, VMware VCP‑DCV, ITIL v3/4.

Educational qualifications

Bachelor’s degree

Location and way of working

Base location: Bangalore

Your role as a leader

We expect our people to embrace and live our purpose by challenging themselves to identify issues that are most important for our clients, our people, and for society.

In addition to living our purpose, leaders across our organization must strive to be:

Inspiring - Leading with integrity to build inclusion and motivation

Committed to creating purpose - Creating a sense of vision and purpose

Agile - Achieving high-quality results through collaboration and Team unity

Skilled at building diverse capability - Developing diverse capabilities for the future

Persuasive / Influencing - Persuading and influencing stakeholders

Collaborating - Partnering to build new solutions

Delivering value - Showing commercial acumen

Committed to expanding business - Leveraging new business opportunities

Analytical Acumen - Leveraging data to recommend impactful approach and solutions through the power of analysis and visualization

Effective communication – Must be well abled to have well-structured and well-articulated conversations to achieve win-win possibilities

Engagement Management / Delivery Excellence - Effectively managing engagement(s) to ensure timely and proactive execution as well as course correction for

the success of engagement(s)

Managing change - Responding to changing environment with resilience

Managing Quality & Risk - Delivering high quality results and mitigating risks with utmost integrity and precision

Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving - Applying strategic mindset to solve business issues and complex problems

Tech Savvy - Leveraging ethical technology practices to deliver high impact for clients and for Deloitte

Empathetic leadership and inclusivity - creating a safe and thriving environment where everyone's valued for who they are, use empathy to understand others to adapt our behaviours and attitudes to become more inclusive. 

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