Administrator - AzureMSSQL DBA, Microsoft Azure
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Administrator - AzureMSSQL DBA, Microsoft Azure role in Vijayawada, India, requires strong experience in .NET/ASP.NET applications, IIS, and Microsoft SQL Server for L2 production support and advanced troubleshooting. Responsibilities include ensuring application stability, performance, and availability, with a focus on ITIL, monitoring, and automation.
Responsibilities
- Manage day-to-day application operations for .NET-based applications hosted on IIS and backed by SQL Server.
- Ensure high availability, performance, and reliability of production environments.
- Monitor application health (availability, latency, errors, capacity) and take proactive actions.
- Perform deployment support, configuration, and environment management for applications.
- Perform L2-level troubleshooting for incidents escalated from L1.
- Handle P1/P2 incidents with ownership, drive service restoration within SLA timelines.
- Conduct root cause analysis (RCA) and implement permanent fixes or workarounds.
- Participate in on-call support / 24×7 rotation.
- Configure and manage application monitoring, alerting, and dashboards.
- Analyse logs, metrics, and traces to detect performance or stability issues.
- Contribute to SLO/SLI adherence and error budget tracking.
- Drive proactive incident elimination and reliability improvements.
- Manage IIS web servers including website/application configuration, deployment, SSL certificate management, performance tuning and troubleshooting.
- Administer SQL Server databases including query optimisation, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and monitoring health and capacity.
- Analyse application logs and system behaviour for issue diagnosis.
- Develop scripts/tools (PowerShell / C#) to reduce operational toil.
- Identify recurring issues and implement automation or permanent fixes.
- Support CI/CD and release validation activities.
- Work closely with development, infrastructure, and DB teams for issue resolution.
- Maintain runbooks, SOPs, and knowledge articles.
- Provide inputs for system improvements and architectural fixes.
Requirements
- Strong experience in .NET / ASP.NET applications.
- Hands-on experience with IIS (Internet Information Services).
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft SQL Server (querying, tuning, troubleshooting).
- Experience in production support (L2).
- Strong understanding of Incident, Problem, and Change Management (ITIL).
- Strong understanding of monitoring and observability tools.
- Strong understanding of performance tuning and capacity management.
- Familiarity with SLO / SLA / Error Budget concepts.
- Familiarity with automation and scripting.
- Knowledge of Windows Server environments.
- Knowledge of application deployment and configuration.
- Knowledge of log analysis and debugging.
- Knowledge of observability using solutions such as Splunk.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
- Ability to work under pressure during major incidents.
- Effective communication with technical and business stakeholders.
- Collaborative mindset across cross-functional teams.
- 3–6 years of experience in Application Support / SRE / Production Support.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / IT or related field.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in enterprise-scale production environments preferred.
Benefits
- Supercharge your potential.
- Find your career.
- Find your spark.
- A place that knows that helping its customers stay on top starts by putting its people first.
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Company
HCLTech
Job Posted
1 month ago
Employment Type
Full Time
WorkMode
On Site
Experience Level
Mid-Senior
Locations
Vijayawada, India
Qualification
Bachelor
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