Ameenullah Shaikh
Pune,India
Summary
Experienced Database Administrator with over 8 years in Microsoft SQL Server, Cloud (Azure, AWS), and PostgreSQL management. Led SQL Server migrations from 2012 to 2022, supporting 125+ production databases. Specialises in database administration, performance troubleshooting, SQL query optimisation, and backup and recovery solutions. Collaborates effectively with infrastructure and application teams to maintain database stability, security, and availability.
Overview
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1
Certification
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Database Administrator
Fujitsu India Pvt. Ltd
Pune, India
06.2022 - Current
- Administer Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and Oracle databases across Production, UAT, and Development environments.
- Perform database installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, and routine maintenance.
- Successfully executed SQL Server migration from SQL Server 2012 to SQL Server 2022 with minimal business downtime.
- Plan and apply Cumulative Updates and Service Packs, maintaining supported build levels and testing patches in lower environments first.
- Configure instance-level settings (max memory, MAXDOP, cost threshold for parallelism, TempDB layout) to production standards.
- Design and manage backup and recovery strategies, including restore validation and disaster recovery activities.
- Define and enforce backup policies aligned to RPO/RTO objectives across full, differential, and transaction log backups.
- Conducted periodic restore drills and DR failover testing to ensure recoverability of systems.
- Implement and maintain high availability using Always On Availability Groups, Failover Cluster Instances, log shipping, and replication.
- Monitor synchronization health, failover readiness, and replica lag across HA topologies.
- Monitored database performance and optimised SQL queries, indexes, and server configurations, achieving approximately 30% improvement in query performance.
- Analyze execution plans, wait statistics, blocking, and deadlocks to resolve performance bottlenecks.
- Manage index maintenance, statistics updates, and fragmentation control.
- Deploy and maintain SSIS packages supporting enterprise ETL processes, and troubleshoot job failures.
- Administer SQL Server security, including logins, users, roles, permissions, and auditing.
- Implement encryption (TDE, Always Encrypted) and manage certificate and key lifecycle.
- Support audit and compliance requirements and remediate findings from security reviews.
- Automate routine administration and monitoring using T-SQL, PowerShell, and SQL Agent jobs.
- Configure proactive alerting for space, job failures, corruption, and availability.
- Manage SQL Server Agent jobs, maintenance plans, and scheduled operational tasks.
- Support database health monitoring, capacity planning, and preventive maintenance.
- Participate in production releases, change management, and database deployments.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, application, and cloud teams to support database modernization initiatives.
- Support cloud migration and hybrid workloads (Azure SQL Database, Managed Instance, SQL Server on VMs).
- Lead a team of nine Database Administrators supporting over 125 production database servers.
- Prepared operational documentation, runbooks, and knowledge base articles to facilitate knowledge sharing and operational continuity.
- Mentor junior DBAs and drive standardization across the database estate.
- Provide L2–L3 and on-call support, coordinating root cause analysis for major incidents.
Analyst
Eaton Technologies Pvt. Ltd
Pune, India
12.2005 - 06.2022
- Provided technical application support and business analysis to resolve operational issues and translate business needs into actionable system requirements.
- Served as a liaison between business users and technical teams to clarify requirements and prioritize fixes.
- Tracked operational metrics, identifying trends and risks while recommending improvement opportunities to stakeholders.
- Prepared management reports and KPI dashboards to support data-driven decision-making.
- Automated manual processes to improve operational efficiency and reduce turnaround time.
- Identified recurring manual tasks and implemented automation to minimize errors and effort.
- Monitored SLA adherence, identified gaps, and drove corrective actions to meet service targets.
- Mentored team members and supported SLA compliance.
- Led business transition activities and process improvements across teams.
- Documented and standardised processes to support smooth knowledge transfer and handovers.
- Coordinated with IT teams for application access and user provisioning to ensure efficient system support.
- Managed access requests and escalations to ensure timely resolution and adherence to access controls.
Education
Master of Business Administration - Master in Personal Management
Pune University
Pune01-2013
Skills
- SQL Server administration
- Database performance tuning
- Database performance metrics
- Backup and recovery
- Availability management
- Security management
- Cloud databases
- Database migrations
- Scripting automation
- Change management
- Root cause analysis
- Technical support
- Problem solving
- Stakeholder collaboration
- Customer service-oriented
- SQL
- Microsoft SQL
Certification
- Microsoft Azure DP-300 Training Completed
- AWS Solutions Architect Training Completed
- PostgreSQL 16 Essentials Certified
- Hadoop Administration Certified
- Microsoft SQL Server Administration Training
Accomplishments
- Successfully completed SQL Server migration from SQL Server 2012 to SQL Server 2022.
- Validated database integrity and application functionality after migration.
- Performed backup, restore, rollback planning, and post-migration optimization.
- Coordinated migration activities with infrastructure and application teams.
- Managed more than 125 production database servers with high availability.
- Reduced SQL query execution time by approximately 30% through performance tuning.
- Led the database support team of 9 members for over 15 months with zero customer escalations.
Timeline
Senior Database Administrator
Fujitsu India Pvt. Ltd
06.2022 - Current
Analyst
Eaton Technologies Pvt. Ltd
12.2005 - 06.2022
Master of Business Administration - Master in Personal Management
Pune University