System Administrator

Role: Azure SQL DBA / Azure Database Administrator

Client: Carnival Cruise Line

Key Responsibilities

Administer and support Azure SQL Managed

Instance, Azure SQL Database, and SQL Server on Azure VMs.

Plan and execute database migrations between

Azure SQL MI, Azure SQL Database, Azure VM SQL Server, and on-premises SQL

Server.

Manage database backup, restore, recovery,

security, access, storage, capacity, and configuration.

Monitor and tune SQL performance using Query

Store, execution plans, DMVs, Extended Events, indexing, statistics, waits,

blocking, and deadlock analysis.

Troubleshoot production issues related to

performance, connectivity, TempDB, storage, backups, database availability, and

application/database interactions.

Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for

critical production incidents and implement corrective/preventive actions.

Develop T-SQL and PowerShell automation for

health checks, maintenance, database refreshes, monitoring, backup validation,

and repetitive DBA activities.

Maintain operational procedures, migration

runbooks, technical documentation, database standards, and security controls.

Required Skills

Strong hands-on experience with Azure SQL

Managed Instance, Azure VM’s and Azure SQL Database.

Strong knowledge of SQL performance tuning,

Query Store, Extended Events, DMVs, indexing, locking/blocking, TempDB, and

execution-plan analysis.

Experience with backup/recovery, security,

patching, upgrades, and database maintenance.

Experience with Incident, Change, and Problem

Management processes.

Strong troubleshooting, communication,

documentation, and stakeholder-management skills.

Support Model

24/7 production support for Azure SQL MI,

Azure SQL Database, and SQL Server on Azure VM environments.

Approximately two weeks of night shift

support per month.

Participation in production incidents, RCA,

change implementation, database migrations, patching, maintenance, deployment

support, and on-call activities.