Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Managed Services

Management Level

Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in infrastructure focus on designing and implementing robust, secure IT systems that support business operations. They enable the smooth functioning of networks, servers, and data centres to optimise performance and minimise downtime.

Those in cloud operations at PwC will focus on managing and optimising cloud infrastructure and services to enable seamless operations and high availability for clients. You will be responsible for monitoring, troubleshooting, and implementing industry leading practices for cloud-based systems.

Focused on relationships, you are building meaningful client connections, and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations, you are growing your personal brand, deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity, you are comfortable when the path forward isn’t clear, you ask questions, and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.Use a broad range of tools, methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems.Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts.Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy.Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.Use reflection to develop self awareness, enhance strengths and address development areas.Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

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Additional Responsibilities: (This field may be used to describe the daily role, duties and/or purpose of this Job Profile/Job Description. The field is limited to 500 characters, including spaces.) 

Senior Associate – SQL Database Administrator (4–7 Years) 
A senior-level SQL Server engineer responsible for owning the reliability, performance, security, and availability of enterprise SQL databases. This role manages complex multi-node clusters, performance engineering, mission-critical tuning, security enforcement, and DR orchestration. The Senior Associate leads high-impact database changes, RCAs, and modernization initiatives. 

Infrastructure-as-Code & Provisioning: Terraform/Ansible CI/CD pipelines, audit logging, environment setup (dev/test/prod) 

Backup & Recovery: Schedule and validate daily/weekly/monthly backups, quarterly DR tests, maintain runbooks 

Patch Management & Upgrades: Plan and apply vendor patches, validate post-upgrade functionality 

Performance & Capacity Planning: Monitor CPU/memory/storage, tune queries and indexes, forecast 12–24 month growth 

High Availability & Replication: Configure clustering, Always On, log shipping, replication; conduct failover drills 

Security & Compliance: Implement encryption, masking, RBAC; audit user activity; generate compliance reports 

Incident Management & RCA: Detect deadlocks, corruption, failed logins; troubleshoot with app teams; document root causes 

Reporting & Dashboarding: Weekly performance and uptime dashboards; recommend optimization opportunities 

Scripting & Automation: Develop Shell, PowerShell, PL/SQL, T-SQL scripts; automate patching, backups, and user provisioning 

 

Minimum Degree Required: Bachelor’s Degree 

 

Degree Preferred: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. 

 

Minimum Years of Experience: 4-7 year(s) 

 

 

Certifications Required: None 

 

Certifications Preferred: Microsoft SQL Server Certifications (MCSA/MCSE), Azure SQL-related certifications 

 

 

Required / Mandatory Knowledge/Skills: (character count limit 5000) *PLEASE ONLY USE THIS FIELD IF THIS IS A MUST HAVE SKILL FOR APPLICANT* 

1. Advanced SQL Server Administration 

Manage complex environments with AlwaysOn AGs, multi-subnet clusters, multiple replicas, automatic failover, and geo-distributed DR. 

Tune cluster quorum settings, failover policies, listener configurations, and read routing. 

Implement encryption-at-rest, TDE, SSL enforcement, and security baselines. 

 

2. Advanced Performance Engineering 

Perform deep-dive performance tuning using: 

DMVs/DMFs 

Execution plan analysis (actual & estimated) 

Stats & index maintenance frameworks 

Extended Events 

Query Store insights 

Wait statistics, blocking chains, and resource semaphore analysis 

Identify long-term performance trends and build proactive tuning strategies. 

 

3. Database Development Support 

Support schema design reviews, indexing strategies, partitioning, and stored procedure optimizations. 

Collaborate with dev teams to optimize data models and improve transactional efficiency. 

 

4. Backup/Restore & Disaster Recovery 

Design and maintain enterprise backup strategies (full, diff, log, copy-only, encrypted backups). 

Execute PIT recovery, AG replica rebuilds, DR failovers, cluster migrations, and cross-site replication checks. 

Document and lead DR drills. 

 

5. Security, Auditing, and Compliance 

Implement role/security policies, least-privilege models, data masking, and auditing. 

Remediate vulnerabilities, manage secrets, and enforce encryption policies. 

 

6. ITSM Responsibilities (Strengthened) 

Lead major database changes, patch cycles, upgrades, and migrations through CAB. 

Own SQL-related incident triages, RCAs, and stability engineering. 

Maintain SQL SLAs/KPIs: 

Backup success rate 

Query performance thresholds 

AG health 

Job reliability 

DR readiness metrics 

 

7. Modernization & Automation 

Build automation frameworks for indexing, stats updates, health checks, and DR validation. 

Assist with modernization: PaaS migrations, SQL Managed Instance planning, DMS migrations. 

 

Preferred Knowledge/Skills: (character count limit 5000)* PLEASE MAKE THIS A BULLETED LIST WHERE EACH SENTENCE STARTS WITH THE SAME VERB TENSE (I.E. PROVIDES, DEVELOPS, FACILITATES, ETC.)  

Should possess knowledge of following tools –  

A. SQL Server 

B. MySQL 

C. MariaDB 

D. MongoDB 

E. PostgreSQL 

F. PowerShell 

G. AWS RDS, Aurora, NoSQL) 

H. Terraform 

I. Solarwinds SQL Diagnostics 

J. Ansible 

 

Travel Requirements

Not Specified

Job Posting End Date

February 13, 2026