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Job Title:  Manager | MS SQL | Bengaluru | Engineering

Job requisition ID ::  98569
Date:  Apr 4, 2026
Location:  Bengaluru
Designation:  Manager
Entity:  Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP

Manager | EA&D-Engineering | SQL DBA

  • Location:  Bengaluru
  • Entity:  Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP

 

The team

Engineering helps Reimagine and re-engineer mission-critical operations and processes; Leverage engineering-led design, deep industry knowledge, and AI and data-driven insights to transform the technology platforms at the heart of business. Working alongside team, we empower and drive mission-critical solutions whether we need to modernize existing systems or implement new technology products and platforms. Through innovation, we improve financial performance, accelerate new digital businesses and fuel growth. Learn more about Engineering, AI and Data

 

 

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.
  • 7–10 years hands‑on MS SQL Server administration in enterprise environments.

 

Key skills required: 

  • 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.
  • 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.

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