Azure Database Administrator Kochi (India)

About the Role Our client is seeking an Azure Database Administrator (7+ years) to manage and optimize their database environments across production, development, QA, and disaster recovery systems. This remote position will involve working with a variety of database technologies, ensuring high availability and performance, and implementing security measures to protect sensitive data. Key Responsibilities Install, configure, administer, monitor, and maintain database environments across production, development, QA, and disaster recovery systems. Manage NoSQL, relational, and caching database technologies including Cosmos DB, Redis, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL. Perform database upgrades, patching, migrations, and workplace refresh activities. Ensure high availability, database uptime, and optimal performance across systems. Monitor database performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement tuning strategies. Optimize queries, indexing, caching, partitioning, and database configuration. Conduct capacity planning and recommend scalability improvements. Implement database security controls, encryption, access management, and auditing. Manage database roles, permissions, authentication, and authorization. Ensure data confidentiality, integrity, and compliance with enterprise and healthcare security standards. Troubleshoot critical database incidents and perform root cause analysis (RCA). Support production deployments, database releases, and change management activities. Participate in on-call support for critical production systems. Required Skills 7+ years of experience in database administration, particularly with Azure Cosmos DB and Redis. Solid expertise in database performance tuning and optimization. Experience with backup and recovery management, replication, clustering, and high availability. Proficient in SQL query optimization and indexing. Hands-on experience with cloud database administration, preferably in Azure. Prefe About the Role Our client is seeking an Azure Database Administrator (7+ years) to manage and optimize their database environments across production, development, QA, and disaster recovery systems. This remote position will involve working with a variety of database technologies, ensuring high availability and performance, and implementing security measures to protect sensitive data. Key Responsibilities Install, configure, administer, monitor, and maintain database environments across production, development, QA, and disaster recovery systems. Manage NoSQL, relational, and caching database technologies including Cosmos DB, Redis, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL. Perform database upgrades, patching, migrations, and workplace refresh activities. Ensure high availability, database uptime, and optimal performance across systems. Monitor database performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement tuning strategies. Optimize queries, indexing, caching, partitioning, and database configuration. Conduct capacity planning and recommend scalability improvements. Implement database security controls, encryption, access management, and auditing. Manage database roles, permissions, authentication, and authorization. Ensure data confidentiality, integrity, and compliance with enterprise and healthcare security standards. Troubleshoot critical database incidents and perform root cause analysis (RCA). Support production deployments, database releases, and change management activities. Participate in on-call support for critical production systems. Required Skills 7+ years of experience in database administration, particularly with Azure Cosmos DB and Redis. Solid expertise in database performance tuning and optimization. Experience with backup and recovery management, replication, clustering, and high availability. Proficient in SQL query optimization and indexing. Hands-on experience with cloud database administration, preferably in Azure. Prefe