Site Reliability Engineer/SQL Server DBA-Hybrid

Our Client, a multi-national telecommunications technology is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with hands-on SQL Server and Oracle to join their Data Center Engineering team. This role requires a technically strong and operationally mature engineer who will help design, scale, and maintain the reliability of our physical and virtual data center infrastructure. You will be a technical leader responsible for ensuring system uptime, optimizing capacity and performance, and contributing to long-term infrastructure resiliency., Architect, deploy, and support SQL Server Always On Availability Groups across on-prem and Azure environments. Install, configure, and maintain SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances (FCI). Administer Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC), quorum, and node health. Plan and execute failover testing, DR drills, and recovery validation. Perform SQL Server installation, upgrades, patching, and migrations. Manage backup, restore, and disaster recovery strategies. Monitor and tune database performance (indexing, query optimization, waits). Troubleshoot replication, latency, blocking, and cluster-related issues. Configure and manage AG listeners, networking, DNS, and storage. Ensure database security, auditing, and compliance. Automate DBA tasks using T-SQL, PowerShell, and SQL Agent. Support application deployments and schema changes. Provide 24-7 production support for mission-critical systems. Maintain runbooks, standards, and operational documentation.

Bachelor''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field. 4-7 years of experience in database administration and operations. Experience participating in or leading incident response and postmortem analysis processes. Previous exposure to hybrid environments integrating on-premise data centers with public or private cloud platforms is desirable. 4+ years of experience with SQL Server Database. Some Oracle skills and can do some patch work., Hands-on experience with backup, recovery, and HA solutions. Strong proficiency in Linux and Debian environments. Proficiency in scripting for database automation. Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills. Strong communication skills for cross-team collaboration. Understanding of Oracle and MySQL databases is a plus, but not mandatory.