Senior SQL Server DBA with 17+ years across on-prem and Azure.
Specialize in performance tuning, HA/DR (Always On AGs, FCI), and security hardening.
Deep Azure SQL (DB, Managed Instance, SQL on VMs); comfortable with AWS equivalents.
Hands-on with replication, log shipping, partitioning, and Query Store–driven tuning.
Built and operated large boxes (80 vCPU, 1.5 TB RAM) under strict SLOs.
Automate with T-SQL, PowerShell, and Python/Bash; ship clean runbooks and CI/CD jobs.
Observability with Azure Monitor, Grafana, and Datadog; actionable alerts and dashboards.
Proven in AG manual seeding, backup/restore verification, and cross-region resilience.
Partner well with app/SRE teams to cut chattiness, batch with TVPs, and reduce waits.
India-based, remote-ready, flexible with US time zones; targeting Azure Database Ops Engineer roles.