Senior SQL Database Administrator

Senior SQL Database Administrator

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company continues to invest in and lead the world container market with ships, an extensive container fleet, intermodal and dedicated staff for its customers. The Company’s evolution to its leading brand needs consistency in marketing, and therefore it is paramount to standardise data, processes and management information.

Established in 1998, MSCTechnology provides development and technology support for the MSC transportation divisions and is composed of highly accomplished technology professionals. Today, with a team of more than 1,000, MSC Technology provides the best, most interactive maritime software solutions available in the industry. With an emphasis on equal employment opportunities and a collaborative approach to growing our expertise and solving complex problems, we are a trusted strategic partner with a great journey ahead of us.

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The Senior SQL Database Administrator (DBA) is responsible for the architecture, administration, performance, security, and availability of Microsoft SQL workloads in a fully Azure-based environment. This role provides technical leadership for Azure SQL platforms, ensures high availability and disaster recovery, and partners with application, Dev Ops, infrastructure and security teams to support mission‑critical cloud‑native solutions. The Senior SQL DBA plays a key role in driving operational excellence, automation, and continuous improvement across Azure database services.

• Design, deploy, configure, and manage SQL Server on Azure, Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance.
• Own end‑to‑end lifecycle management of Azure SQL environments, including provisioning, scaling, patching, and retirement.
• Ensure optimal performance, availability, and reliability of production and non‑production databases.

• Design cloud‑native SQL architectures aligned with Azure Well‑Architected Framework principles.
• Optimize database solutions for performance, scalability, cost efficiency, and resiliency.
• Implement and manage Azure features such as elastic pools, auto‑scaling, and serverless where appropriate.
• Provide guidance on database architecture for new cloud applications and platform modernization efforts.

• Monitor and tune database performance using Query Store, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and native SQL tools.
• Analyze query execution plans, waits, blocking, and resource consumption.
• Work closely with development teams to improve schema design, indexing strategies, deployment runbook optimization, data archival/cleanup, and query performance.
• Proactively identify and mitigate performance risks before they impact customers.

• Design and support HA/DR solutions using Azure‑native capabilities such as shared storage failover clusters, availability groups, active geo‑replication, fail‑over groups, automated backups and point‑in‑time restore, automated seamless disaster recovery solutions.
• Define, test, and document RPO/RTO requirements.
• Conduct regular disaster recovery testing and validation.

• Implement database security best practices, including encryption at rest and in transit, auditing, and data masking.
• Integrate Azure SQL security with Azure Active Directory / Microsoft Entra authentication and managed identities.
• Enforce least‑privilege access and role‑based security models.
• Support compliance requirements and participate in security assessments and audits.

• Automate routine DBA tasks using Power Shell, TSQL, and Azure Automation.
• Support CI/CD pipelines for database deployments and schema changes.
• Improve reliability and consistency through infrastructure as code and automation standards.

• Serve as the senior escalation point for complex database and performance issues.
• Mentor junior DBAs and provide technical guidance across teams.
• Collaborate closely with application, Dev Ops, cloud infrastructure, and security teams.
• Contribute to architectural reviews and cloud governance…