SHAIK A.

Professional Summary 11+ years of experience as a Senior SQL Server Database Administrator (2008R2–2025), specializing in High Availability (HA/DR), upgrades, consolidations, and migrations across global enterprise environments. Proven expertise in performance tuning, troubleshooting, and automation with consistent delivery of 99.99% uptime SLAs. Delivered $200,000 Azure SQL cost savings through optimization, scaling, and automation. Expanding into AI Automation Engineering, integrating intelligent dashboards, predictive monitoring, and AI‑assisted troubleshooting to enhance DBA efficiency and reduce operational costs. Core Expertise: SQL Server Administration: Installation, configuration, upgrades, and migrations (2008–2025). HADR Solutions: Always On, Failover Clustering, Replication, Log Shipping, Mirroring. Cloud Platforms: Azure SQL Managed Instances, AWS migrations, hybrid IaaS/PaaS. Performance & Automation: Capacity planning, baselining, tuning, and scripted automation. BI & Reporting: SSRS/SSIS installation, migration, security, and reporting automation. Dashboards: Unified monitoring for SQL & Oracle instances (engine, agent, RAC, tablespaces). AI Automation: SQL health dashboards, anomaly detection, backup monitoring, compute scaling, log parsing, and AI‑assisted DBA troubleshooting. Technical Skills: Databases: MS SQL Server (2008R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2019, 2022, & 2025) Scripting: T‑SQL, PowerShell, Python OS: Windows Server (2003–2022), Linux RedHat Tools: SSMS, Profiler, Jenkins, Perfmon, SolarWinds DPA, Zabbix, Redgate, GitHub Ticketing: ServiceNow, Remedy AI & Automation: Generative AI prompt engineering, GitHub Copilot, Agent GPT