Branch Manager

ARS Responds Canada; Montreal; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

ARS Responds Canada is seeking a Senior Azure SQL DBA to administer SQL Server across on‑premises and Azure cloud environments. You will lead performance tuning using Query Store, execution plans, and DMVs, while optimizing complex T‑SQL, indexes, and I/O to sustain peak availability.

You will design HA/DR strategies with Always On, plan migrations, and manage service tiers, geo‑replication, and security controls, leveraging PowerShell and Azure CLI for automation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of database administration experience with strong MSSQL and Azure DBA expertise.
• Advanced hands-on experience with Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL Database/MI, and SQL Server on Azure VMs.
• Deep knowledge of Query Store, performance monitoring, and workload analysis.

Responsibilities

• Administer SQL Server across on‑premises, Azure SQL Database, MI, and SQL Server on Azure VMs.
• Lead performance diagnostics using Query Store, execution plans, DMVs, Extended Events, and monitoring tools.
• Optimize T-SQL, indexing, statistics, partitioning, memory, TempDB, parallelism, locking, and I/O.
• Detect plan regressions and bottlenecks; establish baselines and forecast capacity.
• Govern Azure SQL automatic tuning and Database Advisor recommendations with safeguards.
• Plan high availability and DR using Always On, failover groups, replication, backups, and PITR.
• Migrate, upgrade, patch, consolidate, and modernize cloud environments with minimal disruption.
• Manage service tiers, elastic pools, geo-replication, private connectivity, firewalls, and cost optimization.
• Implement least privilege, Entra authentication, managed identities, encryption, auditing, and secrets management.
• Automate provisioning, health checks, backup validation, and reporting with PowerShell and Azure CLI.
• Own incidents, outages, root-cause analysis, and vendor escalations; drive remediation.
• Maintain standards, runbooks, dashboards, and knowledge articles; mentor L1/L2 teams.

Skills

MSSQL Expertise

Azure DBA

Query Store

Performance Tuning

Cloud DB Admin

Tools

PowerShell

Azure CLI

SQL Server Management Studio

Job description

Senior Azure SQL DBA – SQL Server, Performance Tuning & Cloud Database Administration

Your Responsibilities

• Administer and support SQL Server across on-premises, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines.
  
• Lead performance diagnostics and tuning using Query Store, execution plans, Dynamic Management Views, Extended Events, wait statistics, PerfMon, SQL Profiler, and Azure monitoring.
  
• Optimize complex T‑SQL, stored procedures, indexing, statistics, partitioning, memory, TempDB, parallelism, locking, blocking, deadlocks, CPU, storage I/O, and transaction logs.
  
• Detect query‑plan regressions and workload bottlenecks, establish performance baselines and capacity forecasts, and validate measurable improvements.
  
• Govern Azure SQL automatic tuning and Database Advisor recommendations, including production safeguards and rollback readiness.
  
• Design and support high availability and disaster recovery using Always On availability groups, failover groups, clustering, replication, log shipping, backup, restore, and point‑in‑time recovery.
  
• Plan and execute database migrations, upgrades, patching, consolidation, modernization, and cloud adoption with minimal disruption.
  
• Manage Azure SQL service tiers, elastic pools, scaling, geo‑replication, private connectivity, firewall rules, and cost‑performance optimization.
  
• Implement least‑privilege access, Microsoft Entra authentication, managed identities, encryption, auditing, vulnerability remediation, secrets management, and compliance controls.
  
• Automate provisioning, configuration, health checks, maintenance, backup validation, and reporting with PowerShell, T‑SQL, Azure CLI, and infrastructure‑as‑code practices.
  
• Own P1/P2 incidents, outages, root‑cause analysis, corrective actions, vendor escalations, and stakeholder communications.
  
• Maintain standards, runbooks, recovery procedures, dashboards, and knowledge articles; mentor L1/L2 teams and support change and release readiness.
  

Your Profile

• 8–14 years of relevant database administration experience, with strong L3 MSSQL and Azure DBA expertise.
  
• Advanced hands‑on experience with Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines.
  
• Deep knowledge of Query Store, performance monitoring, execution