MOHAMMAD AFROZ

SQL Server DBA & Cloud DBA

E-mail:
afrozmohd2272@gmail.com
Mobile: +91-7794995496

SUMMARY:

 Having 4.5 years of experience as SQL Server DBA and Azure SQL DBA.
 Working on Cloud DB’s AZURE SQL and AWS RDS SQL
 Open to 24 X 7 rotational support.
 Good experience in Provisioning new SQL server with proper configuration as per the client
requirements.
 Working on tickets like Incident, Service requests and Change requests as part of BAU.
 Working on DB health check reports on daily basis.
 Experience with migrations of SQL servers from SQL 2008(R2) to SQL 2012/ 2014/ 2016
 Expertise in configuring High Availability and Disaster recovery strategies like Log
shipping , Mirroring, Clustering, Replication and Alwayson.
 Expert in using native tools like Database Tuning Advisor, Profiler, Performance Monitor.
 Experience on Maintaining the Very LargeDatabases on Production Environment, Cleansing,
and Performance Tuning.
 Good experience in DB Migration and In-Place Server Upgradation.
 Good experience in troubleshooting performance related issues.
 Have huge experience in applying patches to SQL Server in Standalone, Cluster and
AlwaysOn Environments.
 Good experience in troubleshooting patching failures like Missing MSI and MSP files
 Resolving the Disk space issues and finding the root cause to fix it permanently.
 Experience in recovery Corrupted DB’s.
 Experience in Creating and scheduling the jobs and troubleshooting the failed jobs.
 Resolve incidents and service requests as per the agreed SLAs and Timelines.
 Monitor, troubleshoot and resolve failed jobs
 Installing and configuring the SSRS and providing access to the users.
 Good experience in Deploying SSIS packages
 Have experience in troubleshooting issues on SSIS packages and SSRS reports.
 Good experience in using DBCC and DMV commands.
 Experience in Importing data from Excel and CSV files to SQL DB.
 Good experience in taking Backups and Restoring the databases.
 Have good experience in Performance tuning.
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AZURE SQL & AWS RDS Responsibilities

 Good experience on cloud service models IAAS and PAAS

 Managing resources from the AZURE portal.
 Experience on migrating code and data from On-premises to AZURE SQL DB.
 Good experience in provisioning and managing AWS RDS instances.
 Configured and Maintained AZURE Elastic DB pools
 Used Database Migration Assistant tool (DMA) to migrate the databases to PAAS SQL Server
and Azure VM.
 Experience in automating the jobs through Elastic agent job in Azure.
 Good experience in taking Backups to BLOB containers
 Experience in using the cloud tools DMA, STORAGE EXPLORER, DTU CALCULATOR
 Scaling up and scaling down DB class.
 Experience in handling S3 storage buckets and EC2 instances.

Technical Skills:

Relational Databases: SQL Server 2019, 2017, 2016, 2014, 2012, 2008, 2008 R2
SQL Server tools: SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Server BusinessIntelligence
Development Studio
Other Tools Remedy, SCOM, Idera
Cloud DB AZURE SQL and AWS RDS SQL

EDUCATION DETAILS:
 Completed B. Tech from JNTU University, Hyderabad

EMPLOYMENT SUMMARY:
 Working as SQL Server DBA at Concentrix, Bangalore from Feb-2020 to till now.
 Worked as SQL Server DBA at Accenture, Pune from June-2018 to Jan-2020.

PROJECT SUMMARY:

Project/Client#1
Client: Heritage Valley Health System, USA
Role : SQL Server DBA
Duration: Feb 2020 –Till Date

Responsibilities:

 Installation, configuration, and upgrading of MS SQL Server 2012/2014/2016/2017 servers.

 Restoring and copying Production Databases.
 Working AZURE SQL DB migrations.
 Scale up and Scale down Azure SQL DB and Azure VM’s.
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 Migrating DB’s from on-Prem to Azure SQL DB/ Managed instances.

 Troubleshooting Azure Data Factory (ADF) pipelines.
 Provisioning AWS RDS SQL instances
 Responsible for minor and major upgrades to AWS RDS instances
 Maintain and troubleshoot Log shipping issues by continuous monitoring, Monitoring the
failover cluster environment
 Regular monitor of servers, which includes Backup Job Monitoring and troubleshoot all the
issues on regular basis.
 Applying SQL Server service packs based on the errors and flaws that are found in the
application.
 Resolving various performance issues and running DBCC commands, NT monitoring tools.
 Administering the MS SQL Server by Creating User Logins with appropriate roles, monitoring
the user accounts, creation of groups, granting the privileges to users and groups. SQL
Authentication
 Creating maintenance plans Full Backups and Transaction Log Backups. Restore them
whenever necessary, creating back up strategies and scheduling them for execution.
 Serving as DBA in Production, Implementation, UAT and Development Servers, databases.
 Performing Database Restore & Refreshes and fixing Orphaned Users
 Handling the long running jobs on all the servers.
 Hands on experience in trouble shooting high CPU utilization and memory utilization issues.

PROJECT#2
Client: AQUA Finance, USA
Role : SQL Server DBA
Duration: June-2018 to Jan-2020

Responsibilities:
 Working on the SQL Server 2016/2014/2012/2008/2005 instances in production and pre-
production servers.
 Upgrade instances of SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012 to SQL Server 2014 and 2016
 Working on day-to-day tactical break/fix and troubleshooting issues related to SQL Server pre-
production, Production systems.
 Maintaining backups (including tape library) and backup strategy.
 Working with DBA team and Development teams on database health (performance counters,
blocking, deadlocking, fragmentation levels, database growth trends, TOP queries.
 Respond to service requests for Database queries, data configuration changes, data analysis,
and server and database permissions requests.
 Upgrading SQL Server systems to latest service packs. Worked on upgrading the systems to
SQL 2012, SP1 and CU2.
 Granting access to internal tools and databases and managing the Security by creating Security
groups adding users to them appropriately.
 Extensively worked on setting up Mirroring, Log shipping and Replication and Always on in
Prod and Non-prod Servers.
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 Configured and deployed and supported SSIS Packages and migrating from pre-production to
Production Environments.
 Used DMVs for Identifying missing indexes and Index usage stats, Fragmentation levels of
Indexes etc. for query/stored proc tuning. Extensively involved in Index tuning.
 Working as part of a team and providing 24 x7 supports.

DECLARATION

I hereby declare that the information given above is correct to the best of my knowledge.

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