Senior Database Administrator

NB Healthcare Technologies; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

NB Healthcare Technologies in Hyderabad is seeking an experienced Database Administrator to manage production Azure SQL and SQL Server environments, ensuring high availability, performance, and data integrity across critical systems.

You will optimize queries, implement CI/CD for migrations, monitor with Datadog, and enforce robust backup, DR, security controls, and data masking to protect sensitive PHI/PII.

Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, and maintain production Azure SQL and SQL Server databases, ensuring availability, performance, and data integrity
• Perform query optimization, execution plan analysis, index tuning, and performance troubleshooting
• Partner with engineering teams to implement CI/CD pipelines for database migrations and schema changes, and review database changes for quality and risk
• Build and maintain real-time database monitoring in Datadog with actionable alerting in PagerDuty
• Implement and test backup, restore, high-availability, and disaster recovery strategies
• Support capacity planning, cost optimization, and database scaling initiatives
• Automate routine operations using scripting and infrastructure as code (Terraform, PowerShell, Python)
• Manage database security, access controls, auditing, and compliance requirements (HIPAA, HITRUST, and PCI DSS), including evidence collection to support audits
• Design, implement, and maintain static and dynamic data masking to protect sensitive data (PHI, PII, and cardholder data) across production and non-production environments

Job description

Role & responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, and maintain production Azure SQL and SQL Server databases, ensuring availability, performance, and data integrity
• Perform query optimization, execution plan analysis, index tuning, and performance troubleshooting
• Partner with engineering teams to implement CI/CD pipelines for database migrations and schema changes, and review database changes for quality and risk
• Build and maintain real-time database monitoring in Datadog with actionable alerting in PagerDuty
• Implement and test backup, restore, high-availability, and disaster recovery strategies
• Support capacity planning, cost optimization, and database scaling initiatives
• Automate routine operations using scripting and infrastructure as code (Terraform, PowerShell, Python)
• Manage database security, access controls, auditing, and compliance requirements (HIPAA, HITRUST, and PCI DSS), including evidence collection to support audits
• Design, implement, and maintain static and dynamic data masking to protect sensitive data (PHI, PII, and cardholder data) across production and non-production environments

Preferred candidate profile

• Administer, monitor, and maintain production Azure SQL and SQL Server databases, ensuring availability, performance, and data integrity
• Perform query optimization, execution plan analysis, index tuning, and performance troubleshooting
• Partner with engineering teams to implement CI/CD pipelines for database migrations and schema changes, and review database changes for quality and risk
• Build and maintain real-time database monitoring in Datadog with actionable alerting in PagerDuty
• Implement and test backup, restore, high-availability, and disaster recovery strategies
• Support capacity planning, cost optimization, and database scaling initiatives
• Automate routine operations using scripting and infrastructure as code (Terraform, PowerShell, Python)
• Manage database security, access controls, auditing, and compliance requirements (HIPAA, HITRUST, and PCI DSS), including evidence collection to support audits
• Design, implement, and maintain static and dynamic data masking to protect sensitive data (PHI, PII, and cardholder data) across production and non-production environments