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You’ll closely collaborate with software engineering, architecture, infrastructure, and security teams to maintain robust existing databases and modernise delivery with cloud and DevOps practices.\nKey Responsibilities\nCollaborate with the current DBA to administer, monitor, and support all production and non-production Microsoft SQL Server instances and cloud database services, including SingleStore.\n\nEnsure the highest levels of availability, reliability, performance, scalability, and security for our business-critical SaaS workloads.\n\nTake ownership of proactive monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, and health reporting; identifying trends and addressing risks before they affect customers.\n\nDiagnose and resolve complex issues including queries, blocking, deadlocks, resource contention, storage, replication, and connectivity, and contribute to root-cause analysis and permanent solutions.\n\nTune queries, indexes, execution plans, schemas, and configurations, working 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