SQL Server/Data Platform Customer Engineer

Job Title: Customer Engineer for SQL Server/ Data Platform **Exp: 8-20 years

Location: Hyderabad/Bangalore/Chennai

Shifts: Night and rotational shifts** We are seeking a skilled and experienced SQL Server & Data Platform Solution Architect with expertise in SQL Server, Azure SQL, and Data Warehousing. For SQL Server, there should be a strong focus on Performance, High Availability, and Failover Clustering. An ideal candidate will play a key role in design, development and optimization of SQL Server Data Platform deployments as well as assisting in migration and modernization to Azure.

Skills/ Job Expertise Needed

• Enterprise level support and administration focused specifically on:

• SQL performance and tuning optimization, Clustering, Always On Availability groups, High Availability, Core SQL +Migration, on-premises and cloud.

• SQL Server on IaaS experience on Azure/ Other public cloud required.

• All versions of SQL Server (2012 and onwards)

• Solving performance problems, query tuning, and optimization

• Architectural experience for Data Platform

• Architecting for High Availability and Disaster recovery solutions using FCI, Always on Availability groups

• Azure data factory, Azure SQLDB, Azure SQLDB Managed Instance, Azure Synapse knowledge is a plus.

• Delivering and/or authoring technical training

• SQL Server Integration Services, Reporting Services, Analysis Services

• Power BI experience and knowledge are a plus.

• Advanced Microsoft certifications preferred.

• Previous Consulting and/or customer facing role.

Technical Skills

• Data modeling and database design.
• Indexing strategy
• Performance Optimization and Tuning Capabilities
• Partitioning data implementations
• Metadata management and repository usage.
• Database schema creation and management.
• Backup and recovery.
• Ensuring data integrity.
• Ensuring High availability and Disaster recovery.
• SQL code reviews with ability to dissect query plan, T-SQL code
• Procedural skills.
• Data security.
• Data Encryption
• Auditing
• Replication of data
• SQL Edition and version differences with discontinued and deprecated features
• Upgrade process.
• Storage management techniques.
• Data Engine Capacity planning.
• General database management, Policy based management.
• Extended events and Traces
• Basic Licensing and support scenarios
• Windows Failover Clustering
• SQL Server Reporting service
• SQL server Integration Service
• SQL Server Analysis Service
• Power Shell development skills needed.

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