Experience

Major Financial Services

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• DBA Manager

  • Jul 2013 - Present

  • Managed Global Team, including off-shore and on-shore DBAs that provided 24X7 support for MS SQL Server including scheduling, resource allocation and on-call support • Team building and leading the team by encouraging team members in a positive approach. Communicating with the team members, management and client in a proper way so that Innovative ideas and solutions are implemented for crucial Business and technical issue • Expert in MS SQL Server database administration and managing very large databases (VLDB) in production environments, including server installation, configuration, troubleshooting issues, performance tuning, standardizing MS SQL Server in the database environment • Subject Matter Expert (SME) for windows cluster and SQL Server Always ON database environments • Worked on a project to reduce yearly database environment cost by database server consolidation and true-up MS SQL Server licensing • Lead migration of SQL Servers to Azure and GCP IaaS VMs and PaaS for multiple global business units •Participate in gathering requirements from business units for their cloud and data migrations •Performed client acceptance and prototyping using Azure Compute and SQL Azure instances • Eliminated technical debt by upgrading/migrating instances of SQL server 2012 to SQL 2019 Show less