Senior Database Administrator

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🕒 September 2

🇮🇳 India – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📀 Database Administrator

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Havas

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10,000+ employees

📣 Marketing

📱 Media

💼 Consulting

Marketing • Media • Consulting

Havas is a global advertising and communications network that provides integrated marketing, creative, media, PR and consultancy services. The company offers Business Consultancy & Transformation, Brand Consultancy & Design, Creative, Media, Health & Wellness communications, Customer Experience, PR and Public Affairs, Brand Partnerships, Sponsorship & Events, and large-scale Production & Content services. Havas emphasizes data- and AI-driven work (Converged. AI), sustainability and purpose-driven initiatives such as Meaningful Brands and Prosumer Reports, and serves clients with creative campaigns and corporate communications worldwide.

📋 Description

• Administer, monitor, tune, patch, upgrade, and troubleshoot SQL Server 2019 and newer environments. • Own database integrity, availability, backup, restore, and disaster recovery procedures, including recurring recovery testing. • Implement and support high-availability solutions such as Always On Availability Groups and appropriate failover architectures. • Analyze execution plans, indexes, statistics, waits, memory, tempdb, storage, blocking, deadlocks, and concurrency issues. • Create database maintenance standards for consistency checks, backups, index/statistics care, jobs, retention, and capacity. • Administer security using least privilege, role-based access, encryption, auditing, service-account governance, and access reviews. • Partner with developers and data engineers on schema design, stored procedures, query performance, releases, and rollback planning. • Automate operational tasks using T-SQL, PowerShell, SQLCMD, SQL Agent, source control, and approved monitoring platforms. • Lead database incident response, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and stakeholder communication. • Provide technical leadership for SQL Server migrations, consolidations, upgrades, Azure SQL adoption, and hybrid modernization. • Support Microsoft BI and integration workloads including SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, and Power BI connectivity. • Maintain architecture diagrams, configuration baselines, runbooks, escalation procedures, and support documentation.

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 7 years of professional database administration experience, including senior ownership of enterprise Microsoft SQL Server environments. • Advanced production experience with SQL Server 2019 or later, including installation, configuration, patching, security, performance, backup/recovery, and troubleshooting. • Advanced T-SQL and deep understanding of SQL Server internals, indexing, query optimization, transactions, locking, and concurrency. • Hands-on experience with HA/DR technologies and validated recovery procedures. • Strong Windows Server, authentication, storage, networking, service account, certificate, and permission fundamentals. • Experience automating DBA work with PowerShell, T-SQL, and source-controlled scripts. • Experience leading complex incidents and communicating clearly under production pressure. • Clear written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Ability to mentor team members, lead design or incident reviews, and document repeatable standards. • Commitment to security, data privacy, responsible technology use, and continuous learning.

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal opportunities employer • Zero tolerance for discrimination • Continuous learning