Senior MS SQL DBA - Hyderabad, India - NTT

Description

NTT is a leading global IT solutions and services organisation that brings together people, data and things to create a better and more sustainable future.

In today's 'iNTTerconnected' world, connections matter more now than ever. By bringing together talented people, world-class technology partners and emerging innovators, we help our clients solve some of the world's most significant technological, business and societal challenges.

With people at the heart of our success, NTT is committed to attracting and growing the best talent and providing an environment where everyone feels they can belong and their contribution matters.

Your career here is about believing in yourself, and taking on great opportunities and new challenges.It's about growing your skills and expertise in your current role and preparing yourself for the future. That's why we encourage you to take every opportunity to grow your career within our great global team.

Are you ready to take the next step in your career?

The Application Managed Services Engineer (L4) is responsible for ensuring a managed service is provided to all clients, ensuring that their Packaged Application technologies such as ERP, Middleware and other business critical software remain operational. This is done through proactively managing, overseeing, monitoring, investigating, and resolving escalated Application-based incidents and problems to ensure the restoration of these services to the clients. The primary objective of this role is to proactively review all client requests or tickets and apply technical process knowledge to provide the clients with almost immediate resolution without breaching service level agreement (SLA). This role focuses on forth-line support for escalated incidents and requests with a high level of complexity. This role ensures contracted Managed Services outcomes are delivered to the client.

This role may also contribute to / support on project work as and when required.

What you'll be doing

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Proactively monitors the work queues and provides support to clients where the ticket is highly technical or sophisticated in nature
• Works independently, with general direction from the client, stakeholders, team lead, or senior manager, to perform operational tasks to resolve all escalated incidents/requests in a timely manner within the agreed SLA Provides timely and consistent updates of tickets with resolution tasks performed
• Proactively identifies, investigates, analyses issues and errors prior to or when they occur and log all such incidents in a timely manner
• Captures all required and relevant information for immediate resolution
• Provides forth level support to all escalated incidents, requests and identifies the root cause of incidents and problems, responds to tickets where third line engineer teams were unable to fix the problem
• Shares such knowledge, to resolve issues, documents them, and pushes the knowledge down to other engineers
• Communicates with other teams and clients for extending support
• Acts as emergency support contact as needed, for critical client and business-impacting issues
• Ensures that the shift handover process highlight any key escalated open tickets to be focussed on along with a handover of upcoming operation critical tasks to be carried out in the next shift
• Supports, tracks, and documents change implementation
• Provides timely escalation of all tickets to management with ensuing updates, where applicable
• Proactively identifies, contributes, implements and works with automation teams for effort optimization and automating routine tasks
• Systematically gathers relevant information and applies technical knowledge to analyse and uses highly technical troubleshooting tools and content and analytical practices
• Uses operational and diagnostic procedures to resolve escalated tickers in unique and complex client environments
• Coaches Service Desk, Operations Centre, and L3 teams offering technical expertise and pushing work down to other engineering teams
• May manage and implement projects within technology domain, delivering effectively and promptly per client agreed upon requirements and timelines
• May work on implementing and delivering Disaster Recovery functions and tests

Knowledge, Skills and Attributes:

• Excellent proficiency in change management process with an ability to plan, monitor and execute changes with clear identification of risks and mitigation plans to be captured into the change record
• Deep technical skills in relevant Packaged Application technologies such as ERP, Middleware and other business critical software
• Excellent client service orientation and passion for achieving or exceeding expectations
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to communicate and work across different cultures and social groups
• Ability to plan activities and projects well in advance, and takes into account possible changing circumstances
• Ability to maintain a positive outlook at work
• Ability to work well in a pressurized environment
• Ability to work hard and put in longer hours when it is necessary
• Ability to apply active listening techniques such as paraphrasing the message to confirm understanding, probing for further relevant information, and refraining from interrupting
• Ability to adapt to changing circumstances
• Ability to place clients at the forefront of all interactions, understanding their requirements, and create a positive client experience throughout the total client journey

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification in Information Technology/Computing (or demonstrated equivalent work experience)
• Certifications relevant to the services provided (certifications carry additional weightage on a candidate's qualification for the role)
• Relevant certifications such as:
  • DP-300 Azure Database Administrator
  • AZ-104

Required Experience:

• SQL Server Database Administrator
  experience as a DBA-cum-Developer (TSQL, Stored Procedures),
  Experience on SQL Server version 2012 /2014 /2016 / 2017/2019.
  Experience on any of the Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure or OCI)
  Strong experience in Database Administration, Database Architecture.
  Must have a good knowledge in Database Backup and Recovery.
  Its will be add-on if having knowledge in Database Tools like Idera Safe or Rubrik.
  Experience with Windows system administration.
  SQL Server Installation, Configuration and Patching,
  Strong Experience in Log Shipping, Database Mirroring and Replication.
  Knowledge and Experience in High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options for SQL Server
  Must be able to plan growth and changes (Capacity planning),
  Implement and maintain database security,
  Perform general technical trouble shooting,
  Setup and maintain documentation and standards.
  Excellent Communication Skills and ability to set the right expectations
  Coordinate with Infrastructure Team, Applications Team, Provisioning Team, different stakeholders and customers.
  Cloud knowledge will an add-on.

Skills Summary

Database Tuning, Linux, Networking Solutions, Programming Languages, SAP Expertise, Troubleshooting

What will make you a good fit for the role?

Workplace type:

Hybrid Working

Join our growing global team and accelerate your career with us. Apply today.

A career at NTT means:

• Being part of a global pioneer – where you gain exposure to our Fortune 500 clients and world-leading global technology partners and work with a network of over 40,000 smart and diverse colleagues across 57 countries, delivering services in over 200 countries.
• Being at the forefront of cutting-edge technology – backed with a 150-year heritage of using technology for good. With 40% of the world's internet traffic running on our network and where Emoji were first invented, you can be proud of the group's many new 'firsts'.
• Making a difference – by doing meaningful work that helps to shape the future for our clients, and across industries and communities around the world.
• Being your best self – in a progressive 'Connected Working' environment that promotes flexibility, connection and wellbeing. Where diversity and different perspectives are embraced to ensure equal opportunities for all.
• Having ongoing opportunities to own and develop your career – with a personal and professional development plan and access to the broadest learning offerings in the industry.