Join our innovative, creative, and inclusive T&L DBA team - a world-class operation with extensive knowledge and experience. You will interface with business and technical teams to bring about change and influence across the entire world of Deloitte. Apply your skills to make things happen and be a part of a great team that is passionate about serving a great purpose.
We are looking for a skilled SQL Database Administrator to manage, maintain, and optimize Microsoft SQL Server environments across development, test, and production landscapes, including Azure PaaS and IaaS deployments. The role requires strong expertise in database administration, performance tuning, high availability, backup and recovery, incident management, release support, and production troubleshooting. The ideal candidate should be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, supporting business-critical applications, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure stable and secure database operations.
Work you'll do
As a Software Engineer II on the T&L DBA team, you will be responsible for:
- Administer and support Microsoft SQL Server databases across development, test, and production environments, including Azure Platform as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service deployments
- Configure, monitor, and maintain database servers, instances, backup and recovery processes, and disaster recovery capabilities
- Implement and support high availability and disaster recovery solutions, including Always On Availability Groups, SQL Server clustering, and failover configurations
- Analyze and resolve production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and improve database performance through query optimization, index management, and execution plan review
- Support database releases, schema changes, upgrades, and migrations in coordination with application, infrastructure, and DevOps teams
- Create and maintain runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and operational documentation, and participate in after-hours production support as needed
The team
At Deloitte, collaboration is core to how we work. Our internal services professionals bring specialist capabilities across the firm to support client-facing teams and help them deliver exceptional service. Together, these teams provide critical support across Human Resources, Clients & Industries, Finance & Legal, Practice Support Services, Quality & Risk Services, IT Services, and Workplace Services & Real Estate.
Location: Hyderabad
Shift Timings: 11 AM to 8 PM
Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelor of Engineering or Bachelor of Technology
- 2+ years of experience administering Microsoft SQL Server in enterprise environments
- Experience supporting Microsoft SQL Server across development, quality assurance, staging, and production environments
- Experience with Microsoft Azure, including Azure SQL, SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines, and Azure DevOps
- Experience implementing or supporting high availability and disaster recovery solutions, including Always On Availability Groups and failover clustering
- Experience with backup, restore, recovery models, and Recovery Services Vault management
- Experience with SQL performance tuning, incident management, production support, and database release activities
Preferred:
- Experience with Azure Data Factory and Databricks
- Experience migrating SQL Server across versions or between on-premises and Azure environments
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Log Analytics and Application Insights
- Experience with PowerShell scripting for automation
- Experience with database security hardening, auditing, and access management
- Experience supporting extract, transform, and load or data platform workloads integrated with SQL environments