Must have:

· 7–10+ years of experience in Database Administration, including design, implementation, operations, and optimization of enterprise‑scale database systems.

· Proven expertise administering cloud database platforms, with a strong focus on Azure PaaS and IaaS database services.

· Experience managing cloud data services for project delivery, including storage, repositories, virtual machines, disks, key vaults, Data Lake, Data Warehouse, and Data Lakehouse platforms

· Expertise in Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines.

· Advanced performance tuning and troubleshooting, including:

• Query optimization and indexing strategies
• Azure SQL Query Store analysis
• Intelligent Performance & automatic tuning features
• Review of wait statistics and IO analysis
• TempDB optimization
• Understanding and mitigating Azure throttling limits