Senior Database Administrator

• Install, configure, and maintain SQL database servers. 
• Monitor database performance, optimize queries, and tune system resources. 
• Design and implement backup, recovery, and high-availability solutions. 
• Plan and execute database upgrades, migrations, and patch management. 
• Manage user access, roles, and security policies. 
• Optimize SQL queries and database schema design. 
• Collaborate with system and network teams to optimize infrastructure. 
• Maintain up-to-date technical documentation, including procedures and architecture diagrams. 
• Participate in on-call rotations for database incidents. 
• Collaborate with development teams on infrastructure and application improvements. 

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field; Master's degree is a plus.;
• Work experience: Minimum 3 il.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate / DP-300.
• SAP Certified Associate - Database Administrator - SAP HANA.
• DAMA CDMP or other Data Management / Data Governance certification.
• Previous Microsoft MCSA / MCSE SQL Server certifications.
• Data Engineering or Analytics-related certifications. ITIL certifications.
• Language skills: Azerbaijani, Russian and English languages;
• Minimum 3 years of practical experience as a Database Administrator, Data Platform Administrator or similar role.
• Strong experience with Microsoft SQL Server in production environments.
• Proven experience supporting large databases of 500 GB or larger.
• Ability to diagnose disk space issues, LDF growth, tempdb problems and database corruption
• Strong T-SQL skills for administration, troubleshooting and performance analysis.
• Experience with DMV/DMF, wait statistics, execution plans, blocking and deadlocks.
• Strong understanding and configuring of SQL Agent Jobs, maintenance jobs, alerts and monitoring, cost threshold, tempdb, indexes and statistics, backup and restore, transaction logs, recovery models and disaster recovery.
• Experience with database growth monitoring and capacity planning.
• Understanding of OLTP and OLAP workload differences.
• Understanding of ETL/ELT principles and data pipeline operations.
• Experience with Data Warehouse, Staging, ODS or Data Mart environments.
• Strong SQL query optimization and data transformation skills.
• Basic understanding of SAP S/4HANA and SAP HANA architecture.
• Understanding of data quality, data validation and metadata management.
• Ability to work with system administrators, SAP Basis consultants, 1C developers, data engineers, BI developers and business stakeholders.
• Understanding of VMware or Hyper-V impact on database performance, including CPU Ready, memory ballooning, datastore latency and storage bottlenecks.
• Understanding of Windows Server, Linux basics, service accounts, permissions and Event Viewer.
• Ability to document changes and work according to change management procedures.

Preferred Requirements

• Experience with SAP HANA database administration.
• Experience working with SAP S/4HANA implementation, migration or integration projects.
• Experience working with SAP Basis teams or SAP implementation partners.
• Experience with Always On Availability Groups, Failover Cluster, Log Shipping or similar high availability technologies.
• Experience with Apache Airflow, Apache NiFi, Kafka, Spark, Debezium, MinIO or similar data platform technologies.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Oracle, analytical databases or cloud data platforms.
• Experience with Data Lake or Lakehouse architectures.
• Knowledge of partitioning strategies, metadata management and data lifecycle management.
• Experience with BI tools such as Power BI, Tableau or similar.
• Experience with data quality tools or frameworks such as Great Expectations, Collibra, Alation or similar.
• Experience with API-based integrations, REST, JSON and system-to-system data flows.
• Experience with AI/ML data preparation, feature datasets, historical data management and anomaly detection use cases.
• PowerShell or Python automation skills.
• Understanding of storage systems: IOPS, latency, queue length, RAID, SAN/NAS and datastore performance.
• Experience in incident investigation and RCA report preparation.
• Strong business communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills.

Soft Skills:

• Analytical thinking and problem-solving;
• Ability to handle pressure and critical incidents;
• Good communication and teamwork;
• Proactive and detail-oriented mindset.