Chakradhar Rao Surepalli
Azure Sql Database Administrator @Apex Health
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WORK HISTORY
Azure Sql Database Administrator @Apex Health
NE, US
Expertise in SQL Server health monitoring using tools such as SQL Sentry, Redgate, SolarWinds DPA, and custom scripts, ensuring proactive performance and uptime management. Proven ability to design, implement, and maintain Always On Availability Groups, SQL Server Failover Clusters, Log Shipping, and Replication for mission-critical workloads. Successfully led zero-defect production deployments by adhering to First-Time-Right principles, rigorous validation processes, and stakeholder coordination. Demonstrated excellence in root cause analysis (RCA) and resolving critical performance issues under pressure—minimizing downtime and business disruption. Strong skills in T-SQL, dynamic SQL, and indexing strategies to optimize large-scale transactional and reporting workloads. Deep understanding of SQL Server internals, execution plans, memory management, and wait statistics for precision tuning and diagnostics. Optimize data processing workflows for performance and cost efficiency. Monitor database health, implement backups, and apply updates. Identify and address performance bottlenecks and inefficiencies. Implement automation scripts and practices for provisioning, deploying, and managing data solutions. Follow DevOps principles for continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD). Develop and test disaster recovery plans for data solutions to ensure business continuity. Developed and maintained automated scripts for database monitoring and maintenance tasks. Performed regular database backups and disaster recovery drills. Designed and executed schema and data transformations to align with Azure-native database services and improve performance efficiency. Conducted post-migration performance tuning through indexing strategies, query optimization, and resource configuration for high availability and low-latency access.
EDUCATION
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
B.Tech, E.C.E
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
M.Tech, Computer Networks and Information Security
SKILLS
ABOUT CHAKRADHAR RAO SUREPALLI
Overall 14+ Years of experience in Database administration, Installation, Patching, Migration, Backup and Recovery, Performance Tuning, Capacity Planning and Production Support Environment.• Well experienced in working with SQL Servers 2005 to 2019, Azure Paas, Iaas & Saas Services, MySQL Server 5.5/5.6/5.7• Hands on Experience on Installing, configuring, managing, monitoring, and troubleshooting SQL Server 2005 to 2019• Ability to handle a team of database architects to work in unison forming a product outcome of company.• Expertise in enhancing the customer’s revenues by standardizing content from the databases and helping the team to quickly answer to customer requests.• Expertise in identifying the risks associated with the database service and escalating them to the respective teams.• Provisioning an Azure SQL Database and Creating Resources • Worked on Migrating a SQL Server Database to an Azure SQL Database• Worked on Backing Up an Azure SQL Database• Good Experience in Restoring and Securing the Azure SQL Database• Experience in Working on Disaster Recovery• Worked on Monitoring and Tuning Azure SQL Database• Extensive experience in providing Production support for Database and Applications.• Experience in high availability features in Log shipping and Database Mirroring.• Hands on Experience on Always on, Replication and Clustering.• Migration and Upgrading/Down grading of SQL Server instances across editions.• Handled huge databases up to 1 TB. • Automated mail-based Reports for Disk Space, Replication & Log-shipping status.• Open RDP sessions of Servers, SQL Server Resource utilization & threshold breach etc.• Drill down the database performance issues using variety tools like Profiler & Perfmon.• Experience in Tuning SQL Queries & improving the performance of the Database and Applications.• Experience in jobs scheduling, backup and restoring databases.• Building excellent relationship with the Client Customers & resolving the Software & Data Base Trouble Shooting.• Familiar with different ticketing /change management systems like Remedy, IT services, Jira & Service Now.• Excellent technical analysis, multi-tasking, problem solving skills and team player.• Services across a variety of environments involving localized networks, distributed systems and AWS• In-depth root cause analysis, devising workarounds, and future planning and preventions.• Good Knowledge in AWS services like VPC, EC2, S3, ELB, Autoscaling Groups (ASG), EBS, RDS, IAM, Route 53, CloudWatch, Cloud Front, CloudTrail.
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