Bharath Kasala

About me

• Having 7+ years of experience in Microsoft SQL Server Database Administration performing SQL Installation, Configuration, Patching, Monitoring, Maintaining and troubleshooting SQL 2005 – SQL 2022. • Upgrading/Migrating SQL Server from older to newer (till SQL 2019). Performing Daily health checks like SQL Services Status, DB Availability, Resource utilization, blocking, deadlock, LRQ, disk space issues, unusual job runs, job failures, log backup overdue etc. • Creating Databases, Backup and recovery Management, Security Management, Automation using Tsql, Excel, PowerShell Scripting, Autosys, Tanium, Git/GitHub, Ansible & Terraform. • Setting up Table partitioning, Data archiving and Data purging as per the request from application team. • Experience on SQL CDC (change data capture) and SQL Server Auditing. • Experience in settingup Graphana dashboard for SQL estate monitoring. • Worked on HA/DR features of SQL Server such as Log Shipping, Mirroring, SQL Clustering, SQL Replication, AlwaysOn AG, VmWare SRM and Oracle golden gate. • Worked on IAAS (SQL on Azure VM & EC2 instance) and PAAS (Azure SQL DB, Azure MI, Amazon RDS) model of databases in AWS and Azure. • Migrating SQL Databases from Onprem to Cloud environment using backup/restore, Import/Export, bacpac, log replay service, Azure MI link, Data Sync, Azure Data Studio, Azure hybrid mode, ADF, Azure DMS, Azure Migrate, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Arc, AWS DMS, Migration factory, Migration Hub Orchestrator, VmWare HCX, SQL Replication, SQL AO etc. • Worked on migrating SQL databases to Nutanix cluster environment and VMware Cloud on AWS. • Experience on encryption techniques like TDE, SSL and TLS. • Managing privileged DBA accounts across multiple SQL Server instances using CyberArk. • Focused towards ITIL Framework (Incident/Requests/Change/Problem Management). • Worked on SQL Server performance tuning using SQL native tools like Perfmon, Query Store, DTA, Execution plans and 3rd party tools like Redgate SQL Monitor, Idera SQLSafe, Solarwinds DPA, Nagios, Dynatrace, Splunk, PSSDIAG, SQL Logscout, SQL Nexus etc. • Exposure to other database technologies like Postgresql RDS and Mongodb. • Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools for database automation and deployment.