Job Title:  Manager | MS SQL | Hyderabad | 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 realise your potential amongst cutting edge leaders, and organisations 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.

Desired qualifications

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Database Administrator (DBA) to manage our cloud-based database infrastructure, which includes MySQL, MSSQL, Redis, and Cosmos DB across cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. This role involves managing, optimizing, and securing high-performance database systems, ensuring reliability, availability, and scalability in the cloud environment. The successful candidate will also provide strategic guidance on database architecture, performance tuning, and operational excellence.

Cloud Database Management:

MySQL & MSSQL Management: Administer and optimize both MySQL and MSSQL databases hosted in cloud environments, ensuring they are configured for high availability, performance, and security.

MySQL & MSSQL Management: Administer and optimize both MySQL and MSSQL databases hosted in cloud environments, ensuring they are configured for high availability, performance, and security.

Redis Management: Oversee the deployment, scaling, and performance optimization of Redis clusters for caching and high-performance data storage solutions.

Cosmos DB Management: Administer and optimize Cosmos DB for NoSQL workloads, ensuring effective partitioning, scaling, and integration with other cloud services.

Cloud Infrastructure: Work with cloud service providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) to ensure database deployments align with best practices for cost-efficiency, reliability, and security.

Database Performance Optimization:

Query and Index Optimization: Perform deep analysis on database performance, focusing on query optimization, indexing strategies, and identifying resource bottlenecks in MySQL, MSSQL, Redis, and Cosmos DB.

Capacity Planning and Scaling: Monitor and predict database resource requirements, performing proactive capacity planning and ensuring resources scale automatically based on demand (vertical and horizontal scaling).

High Availability & Disaster Recovery: Design and implement high-availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solutions, ensuring continuous database uptime and minimal impact from failures.

Automation and Scripting:

Automation of Database Tasks: Automate common database tasks (backups, scaling, monitoring) using scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell) and cloud-native automation tools (e.g., AWS Lambda, Azure Automation).

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Leverage tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or ARM Templates to automate database deployment and management across cloud environments.

Security and Compliance:

Database Security: Implement best practices for database security, including encryption, role-based access control (RBAC), and compliance with regulatory standards such as GDPR, HIPAA, SOC2, etc.

Auditing and Logging: Ensure proper logging of database activities and provide regular audits to ensure compliance with organizational and industry standards.

Vulnerability Management: Stay up to date on security patches and vulnerabilities, proactively applying patches and mitigating potential risks to databases.

Cloud Database Monitoring and Maintenance:

Database Monitoring: Set up and manage continuous monitoring for database health, performance, and availability using tools such as CloudWatch (AWS), Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, or custom monitoring scripts.

Incident Response & Troubleshooting: Diagnose and resolve complex database issues such as replication failures, performance bottlenecks, and connectivity issues in cloud environments.

Backup & Restore: Implement automated backup solutions with an effective retention policy and regularly test recovery plans to ensure quick and efficient disaster recovery.

Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing:

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with application developers, data engineers, and DevOps teams to design and implement database solutions that support application requirements.

Documentation & Reporting: Document cloud database architectures, procedures, maintenance activities, and best practices for internal knowledge sharing and operational transparency.

Training and Mentoring: Provide guidance, training, and mentorship to junior DBAs and development teams on cloud database best practices, troubleshooting techniques, and new technologies.

Database Migration & Upgrades:

Cloud Migration Projects: Lead and manage database migration projects from on-premise to cloud platforms, ensuring a smooth transition with minimal downtime and data loss.

Version Upgrades & Patching: Plan and execute major and minor database version upgrades, applying patches to ensure the latest features and security fixes are in place. Location and way of working

• This profile involves frequent travelling to client locations
• Hybrid is our default way of working. Each domain has customised the hybrid approach to their unique needs.

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. 

How you’ll grow

Connect for impact

Our exceptional team of professionals across the globe are solving some of the world’s most complex business problems, as well as directly supporting our communities, the planet, and each other. Know more in our Global Impact Report and our India Impact Report.

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Inclusion for all

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Drive your career

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