Our Client is seeking a remote experienced Azure SQL Managed Instance (SQL MI) Administrator to provide 24×7 support, administration, monitoring, and troubleshooting for mission-critical Azure SQL MI environments. This role supports a global operations team and includes rotational shifts, on-call support, and incident response.
Key Responsibilities:
- Administer, provision, configure, maintain, patch, and upgrade Azure SQL Managed Instances across multiple subscriptions and regions
- Manage sizing, scaling, storage, capacity planning, backups, restores, security reviews, and maintenance
- Support SQL MI architecture, including Virtual Clusters, General Purpose/Business Critical tiers, HA/failover, zone redundancy, instance pools, storage, networking, and VNet integration
- Assist with SQL Server to Azure SQL MI migrations and deployment architecture reviews
- Monitor and optimize performance, troubleshoot slow queries, blocking, indexing, execution plans, and resource bottlenecks (CPU, memory, storage, I/O)
- Manage HA/DR solutions including Auto-Failover Groups, Geo-Replication, PITR, LTR, backup/recovery strategies, and DR testing
- Monitor environments using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and enterprise monitoring tools
- Handle incidents, service requests, problem management, root cause analysis, and major outage support
- Troubleshoot connectivity, replication, performance, resource contention, and network-related issues
- Implement and support Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), RBAC, TDE, Always Encrypted, auditing, threat detection, and vulnerability assessments
- Develop automation using PowerShell, Azure CLI, T-SQL, and preferably ARM, Bicep, or Terraform
- Support Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployments and automate routine DBA and monitoring activities
Requirements
5+ years of SQL Server Administration experience
- 3+ years of Azure SQL Managed Instance administration experience
- Azure Cloud experience
- Excellent communication and customer-facing skills
- Ability to work independently during shifts
- Strong incident management and problem-solving capabilities
- Ability to lead technical discussions during critical outages
- Experience preparing RCA and operational reports
- Willingness to work in a 24×7 rotational shift model, including weekends and holidays
- Participation in on-call support and major incident management activities
- Ability to support global customers across multiple time zones
Strong hands-on experience with:
- Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Azure Virtual Networks
- Private Endpoints
- NSGs
- Route Tables
- Azure Monitor
- Log Analytics
- Azure Backup
- Azure Key Vault
- Azure Storage
Strong expertise in:
- SQL Server Engine
- Query Performance Tuning
- Index Management
- Backup & Recovery
- Always On concepts
- HA/DR design
- Capacity Planning
Expert-level troubleshooting skills across:
- SQL Server
- Azure Infrastructure
- Networking
- Performance issues
- Storage bottlenecks
Preferred:
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate (DP-300)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)
- Experience supporting large-scale enterprise production environments
- Experience working in ITIL-based support organizations
Nice to have:
- Experience with Azure Arc-enabled SQL Server
- Experience with Azure SQL Database and Azure Synapse
- Familiarity with Azure Landing Zones and enterprise-scale Azure environments
- Exposure to monitoring tools such as Instana, Dynatrace, Grafana, or Azure Managed Prometheus
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