Senior DBA Manager JD

Sr. Manager, Database Operations (MS SQL DBA, AWS ,T-SQL, PowerShell) IN-Hyderabad Our fast-paced and collaborative environment inspires us to create, think, and challenge each other in ways that make our solutions and our teams better. Whether you’re interested in engineering or development, marketing or sales, or something else – if this sounds like you, then we’d love to hear from you! We are headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with offices in the US, Canada, and India. Job Description Vertafore is a leading technology company whose innovative software solution are advancing the insurance industry. Our suite of products provides solutions to our customers that help them better manage their business, boost their productivity and efficiencies, and lower costs while strengthening relationships. Our mission is to move InsurTech forward by putting people at the heart of the industry. We are leading the way with product innovation, technology partnerships, and focusing on customer success. Our fast-paced and collaborative environment inspires us to create, think, and challenge each other in ways that make our solutions and our teams better. We are headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with offices across the U.S., Canada, and India. Job Description We are in search of the world’s most creative and experienced engineering leaders. We embrace entrepreneurs as well as those who come from more established organizations. As a key member of the Sr Manager of database operations leadership team, you will play a pivotal role in the strategic and operational management of our global database systems. Partnering closely with stakeholders across engineering, product, and business units, you will architect scalable and resilient solutions that support our enterprise platforms and strategic producer partners. This role requires strong leadership, technical, and operational skills to ensure high availability, security, scalability, and optimal performance of critical business systems. You will lead multiple teams of exceptional engineers, provide direction on technical architecture, influence cross-functional initiatives, and contribute to our technology strategy and ensure that the standard operating procedures are followed and revised as per needs. We’re looking for someone with a deep understanding of database systems, distributed architectures, and enterprise SaaS platforms—someone who is both a hands-on technical expert and an inspiring leader. Our culture fosters collaboration, innovation, integrity, mentorship, commitment to success and FUN and you will be adding your creativity and energy to it. Our managers are dedicated to growing their people and offering an opportunity that allows you to make impact in your career. Core Requirements and Responsibilities: Essential job functions included but are not limited to the following: · Lead the database operations strategy to support our growing portfolio of products with a focus on performance, security scalability, and high availability. · Lead a team of DBA’s and database engineers promoting a culture of accountability, technical excellence, and continuous improvement. · Collaborate cross-functionally with product, platform engineering, DevOps, and SRE to ensure our data infrastructure enables high-quality customer experiences. · Conduct regular performance reviews, providing feedback and professional growth. · Coordinate with the TAG team for recruiting, interviewing and hiring new team members as needed. · Define and maintain the policies, standards and procedures for database management and operations. · Drive architectural decisions for data storage, replication, disaster recovery, and reliability across cloud and hybrid environments. · Set the vision for database automation, monitoring, observability, and incident response. · Build and mentor high-performing teams through coaching, career development, technical guidance and promoting a culture of accountability, technical excellence, and continuous improvement. · Optimize our use of both relational and NoSQL technologies in alignment with product scalability and user needs. · Own the health and lifecycle of all database environments. · Oversee the design, implementation, and management of SQL Server database instances (on-premises and cloud). · Ensure high availability, performance tuning, and reliability of database systems. · Manage routine database maintenance, patching, upgrades, and backups. · Implement and enforce security policies, including encryption, access control, and auditing. · Lead performance tuning initiatives, including indexing strategies, query optimization, and resource management. · Manage capacity planning and resource scaling. · Develop and maintain robust disaster recovery plans and backup/recovery processes. · Ensure regular testing and compliance with recovery point and recovery time objectives (RPO/RTO). · Establish and maintain key performance indicators (KPIs) for database operations and provide regular reports to senior management · Implement robust monitoring and alerting mechanisms to quickly detect and revolve database related issues Skills & Requirements Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: · Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related field (Master’s preferred). · Overall, 15 years of experience with 10+ years of hands-on experience with Microsoft SQL Server administration (2016 and newer). · Strong technical knowledge of relational (e.g., SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL) and non-relational databases (e.g., Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra). Will be beneficial · 5+ years of team leadership or management experience in a database operations role. · Familiarity with Dyna trace · Proven expertise in designing and running large-scale, distributed database systems in high-growth environments. · Hands-on experience with modern cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) · Deep knowledge of database internals, Always on Availability Groups, replication, clustering, and security features. · Experience with high-availability and disaster recovery strategies. · Strong experience with T-SQL, PowerShell, and SQL Server performance monitoring tools. · Familiarity with SQL Server in cloud platforms (e.g., Azure SQL, AWS RDS for SQL Server). · Excellent communication, problem-solving, and decision-making skills. · Are energetic, effectively managing relationships (up, down, across) and able to roll-up their sleeves to get the job done · Have an ability to influence across boundaries and at all levels of the organization · Think strategically to help drive features and services for short and long-term growth · Can create a fun, fast paced, motivating and rewarding environment for their teams and the organization · Attract, build and retain a highly engaged and capable development teams that can deliver on our technology and business strategies · Think End-to-End by connecting all the pieces of the business · Provide strong people management: attracting, retaining, inspiring and growing individuals; demonstrating a passion for people’s development and mobility · Mentor and inspire others to raise the bar for everyone around them · Are creative turning problems and solutions on their heads to come up with better designs, better technical solutions, better products · We love development managers that: o Bring an unwavering passion for managing the dynamics of a fast-paced environment o Communicate effectively cross-functionally across various teams, organizations and internal and external stakeholders to drive engineering effort o Are self-motivated and excellent problem-solvers o Are driven to improve, personally and professionally o Love to collaborate with their peers, designing pragmatic solutions o Effectively lead and manage change within their area of responsibility as well as across the business o Have a cooperative, collaborative, open and flexible mindset Preferred: · Microsoft certifications (e.g., MCSE: Data Management and Analytics, Azure Database Administrator Associate). · Experience in DevOps practices, automation (AWS), and CI/CD for database deployments. · Exposure to data warehousing, SSIS/SSRS/SSAS, and data governance practices. The Professional Services (PS) and Customer Success (CX) bonus plans are a quarterly monetary bonus plan based upon individual and practice performance against specific business metrics. Eligibility is determined by several factors including: start date, good standing in the company, and actives status at time of payout. The Vertafore Incentive Plan (VIP) is an annual monetary bonus for eligible employees based on both individual and company performance. Eligibility is determined by several factors including: start date, good standing in the company, and actives status at time of payout. Commission plans are tailored to each sales role but common components include quota, MBO's and ABPMs. Salespeople receive their formal compensation plan within 30 days of hire. Vertafore is a drug free workplace and conducts preemployment drug and background screenings.

Interview with LTIMindtree

1. How do you migrate 16 TB Database from On prem to Cloud? 2. How do you optimize the backups and restores during the migrations to reduce the cutover window? Ans: There are 6 optimization methods for the same 1. Split Backups 2. Striped backups on multiple disks 3. Compressed backups 4. Stop SQL Services, Copy(snapshots) data and logs disks to new server and attach 5. Take Snapshots of the backup drives and attach to destination server and restore 6. ??? 3. what tools or methods you use to migrate from On Prem to Cloud Azure IaaS, PaaS and Managed Instnace? 4. Differnece Between General purpose and Business critical managed instnaces? 5. Limitations of Managed Instnace? 6. DMA (depricated), DMS with PowerShell, Azure Data Studio Migration extension, DBATOOLS.IO for migrations 7. What is the preliminary analysys that is required before migrating the databases from DBA perspective? 8. What are the events captured in SOX Audit? 9. What are the automation tools you are aware along with PowerShell? 10. How do you migrate TDE with Azure Keyvault databases? 11. How comfortable in handling alone and contributing for new age solutions for client? 12. What is your exposure in engineering work and team? 13. do you have experience in Terraform? 14. What is Contained Availability group? 15. Difference between On Prem Availability group and Azure AlwaysOn Availability groups? Load Balancer Multi Subnet configurations 16. What are the type of Availablity group you configured? 17. How many IPs you need to configure Listener with HADR (multi subnet vs Single Subnet)? 18. How do you migrate SQL objects? 19. Can we migrate SQL Maintenance plans and how? 20. Can we migrate Linked servers of Non MS SQL subscribers? if so, how? 21. How do you migrate linked servers? 22. How big the DB and SQL VM(SKU) that are being supported in your environment? 23. What is the Seris of the VMs that hosts the biggest databases? 24. As a solutions architect how comfortable you are in handling engineering work? 25. What is the difference between Basic Vs Standard Vs Contained Availability group? 26. How do you build foundation for migration plan including assessment and feasibility study? 27. How do you assess and ensure migration will be successful or identify road blocks and address before actual migration? 28. What are the tools or methods that can be used for migration assessment? 29.

DBA Interview with RevitUP

1. What is Physical DB Architecture and explain? What are the pagefile information? 2. What is Checkpoint and sequence of operations when Checkpoint is run? 3. Types of Checkpoints? 4. How do you connect to IBM DB2 for data retriveral or update/Insert? 5. WHat is Transactional replication and how it works? 6. WHat are the types of ISOLATIONS and use of them? 7. WHen do you use each of them? 8. How do you plan SQL Server migration and ensure perfect migrations? Logins Objects Credentials Configurations Drives Capacity OnPrem to Azure (IaaS) On Prem to Azure PaaS DMA DMS BACKPAC EXPORT 9. Have you worked on DB Partitioning and how does it work? 10. How do you check IO Statistics of the Servers and how do you ensure it's healthy? 11. what are L1, L2 and L3 Administrator Roles? 12. How do you rate yourself on PowerShell? 13. Have you involed in Automation activties? 14. What kind of activities are automated through PowerShell? 15. What is tail log backup? 16. TEMPDB Best practices? 17. How do you migrate databases to Azure Databases? 18. How do you migrate Large Databases? 19. How do you tune SQL Query? 20. How do you check Dead Locks? 21. How do you fix dead locks as a DBA? 22. WHat are the monitoring tools used? 23. How do you fix BD corruption issues? 24. If you don't have any details in logs, how do you check and fix the DB Corruption issues? 25. How does Query Optimizer works and work flow of Query Optimizer? 26. Explore on entier SQL Architectrure DB Architecture Log File Architecture Data File Architecture 27.

Interview with Mphasis

### **SQL Server Database Administration – Advanced Interview Questions** #### **1. How do you plan a migration for a critical enterprise database with a strict 4-hour outage window?** **Answer:** Migrating a critical database within a limited downtime window requires **careful planning and execution**. The following steps ensure a smooth transition: 1. **Define the Migration Strategy:** - Engage with **business stakeholders** to finalize the migration approach. - Prepare a **detailed migration plan** with target deadlines and responsibilities for each team. - Obtain approval from **business teams, support groups, and key stakeholders**. 2. **Minimizing Downtime:** - Consider efficient migration techniques such as: - **Log Shipping:** Pre-configure log shipping to sync data before cutover. - **Disk Snapshot Migration:** Detach and attach disks for faster recovery. - **Pre-stage Data Restoration:** Perform **FULL, DIFF, and TLOG restores** before the outage window. 3. **Performance Baseline & Validation:** - Capture **performance statistics** from the source system and compare them with the new environment post-migration. 4. **Post-Migration Best Practices:** - Upgrade **database compatibility** to leverage the latest SQL Server features. - Run **DBCC CHECKDB** to verify database integrity. - Perform **index rebuilds and update statistics** for optimized performance. - Resolve **orphaned users** to ensure seamless authentication. --- #### **2. What common issues have you encountered after database migration?** **Answer:** Post-migration challenges can arise due to compatibility changes, performance shifts, and security constraints. Some common issues include: - **Compatibility Issues:** - Legacy applications may require **Legacy Cardinality Estimation** to maintain query performance. - Orphaned users may need re-mapping. - **Performance Issues:** - Execution plans may change, requiring query tuning and statistics updates. - **SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS):** - **Encryption key conflicts** after migration. - **SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS):** - SSIS Catalog migration challenges may arise, requiring package validation. --- #### **3. How do you configure MAXDOP and Cost Threshold for Parallelism?** **Answer:** - **MAXDOP (Maximum Degree of Parallelism):** Determines the maximum number of CPU cores SQL Server can use for query execution. It is typically set based on **CPU architecture** and **workload patterns**. - **Cost Threshold for Parallelism:** Defines the **query cost threshold** above which SQL Server will use parallelism. A default of **5** is often too low and needs to be adjusted based on workload analysis. --- #### **4. How does MAXDOP impact performance, and how do you determine the right value?** **Answer:** - Setting **MAXDOP too high** can lead to excessive **context switching and CPU contention**. - Setting **MAXDOP too low** may limit parallel query execution, increasing query runtime. - The ideal **MAXDOP value** is determined based on **server core count, NUMA configuration, and workload type** (OLTP vs. OLAP). --- #### **5. What are some common wait types you have encountered?** **Answer:** - **PAGEIOLATCH_SH / PAGEIOLATCH_EX:** Indicates slow disk I/O performance. - **CXPACKET:** Can signal **parallelism issues**, requiring MAXDOP tuning. - **LCK_M_S / LCK_M_X:** Lock contention issues due to blocking queries. - **ASYNC_NETWORK_IO:** Often due to slow application-side processing. --- #### **6. How do you troubleshoot a query that runs 20x slower on a higher SQL Server version after migration?** **Answer:** - Compare **execution plans** between old and new servers. - Update **statistics and indexes** to optimize performance. - Verify **query compatibility mode** to ensure it aligns with the new SQL version. - Enable **Legacy Cardinality Estimation** if necessary. - Check for **wait types** affecting the query execution. --- #### **7. Have you worked on SQL Server installations on Linux?** **Answer:** Yes, SQL Server is supported on Linux, and installation is done using package managers like **YUM, APT, or Zypper**. Tasks include configuring **mssql-server service, firewall rules, and storage optimizations**. --- #### **8. What is your expertise in PowerShell for SQL Server administration?** **Answer:** - Automating **SQL Server installations** and configurations. - Managing **backups, restores, and database health checks**. - Automating **SQL Agent job monitoring and alerting**. - Using **dbatools PowerShell module** for efficient SQL Server administration. --- #### **9. How do you efficiently install SQL Server when handling bulk installation requests?** **Answer:** - Use **PowerShell automation scripts** to streamline installations. - Pre-define **configuration.ini files** for unattended installations. - Deploy using **group policies or Ansible automation** for large environments. - Automate post-installation steps, such as **sp_configure settings, tempdb optimization, and security configurations**.

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Rheumatoid Arthritis Self-Care

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Self-care, or self-management, means taking a proactive role in treatment and maintaining a good quality of life. Here are some ways you can manage RA symptoms (along with recommended medication) and promote overall health.

Anti-inflammatory Diet and Healthy Eating

While there is no specific “diet” for RA, researchers have identified certain foods that are rich in antioxidants and can help control and reduce inflammation. Many of them are part of the so-called Mediterranean diet, which emphasizes fish, vegetables, fruits and olive oil, among other healthy foods. It’s also important to eliminate or significantly reduce processed and fast foods that fuel inflammation.

Balancing Activity with Rest

Rest is important when RA is active and joints feel painful, swollen or stiff. Rest helps reduce inflammation and fatigue that can come with a flare. Taking breaks throughout the day conserves energy and protects joints.

Physical Activity

For people with RA, exercise is so beneficial it’s considered a main part of RA treatment. The exercise program should emphasize low-impact aerobics, muscle strengthening and flexibility. The program should be tailored to fitness level and capabilities, and take into account any joint damage that exists. A physical therapist can help to design an exercise program.

Heat and Cold Therapies

Heat treatments, such as heat pads or warm baths, tend to work best for soothing stiff joints and tired muscles. Cold is best for acute pain. It can numb painful areas and reduce inflammation.

Topical Treatments

These treatments are applied directly to the skin over the painful muscle or joint. They may be creams or patches. Depending on the type used, it may contain nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), salicylates or capsaicin, which help reduce pain.

Natural and Alternative Therapies

Relaxation techniques, such as deep breathing, guided imagery and visualization can help train painful muscles to relax. Research shows massage can help reduce arthritis pain, improve joint function and ease stress and anxiety. Acupuncture may also be helpful. This involves inserting fine needles into the body along special points called “meridians” to relieve pain. Those who fear needles might consider acupressure, which involves applying pressure, instead of needles, at those points.

Supplements

Studies have shown that turmeric and omega-3 fish oil supplements may help with rheumatoid arthritis pain and morning stiffness. However, talk with a doctor before taking any supplement to discuss side effects and potential interactions.

Positive Attitude and Support System

Many studies have demonstrated that resilience, an ability to “bounce back,“ encourages a positive outlook. Having a network of friends, family members and co-workers can help provide emotional support. It can help a patient with RA cope with life changes and pain.

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