Senior Database Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Engineer a best-in-class cloud database service offering.
• Design and integrate cloud database solutions aligned with industry best practices, ensuring scalability, resilience, security, observability, and simplicity.
• Conduct proof of concepts (POCs) for new cloud database services and third-party tools.
• Collaborate with InfoSec to review and enhance Azure security posture.
• Develop innovative solutions to address complex challenges in distributed systems, scale, and security.
• Work with cross-functional cloud teams to prioritize service enhancements.
• Partner with development teams to guide cloud adoption and evaluate new cloud service requirements.
• Optimize database performance through effective indexing strategies and query tuning techniques.
• Identify, triage, and drive automation to improve reliability, operability, and developer experience.
• Solve new and challenging problems as part of a highly skilled engineering team.
• Demonstrate exceptional problem-solving skills to address issues proactively before impacting business productivity.
• Build fully automated solutions using Infrastructure-as-Code and integrate them with CI/CD pipelines.

Required Knowledge, Experience & Qualifications

Core Experience

• Strong background in infrastructure and cloud database engineering.
• Hands-on Cloud DBA experience

  Azure SQL (must-have)

  .
• Experience as a

  Senior SQL DBA

  .
• Deep technical knowledge of:
• MS SQL Server 2005–2019+
• Query/workload performance tuning and troubleshooting
• Partitioning, In-Memory OLTP, Resource Governor, Query Store
• SSRS and SSIS
• High Availability: SQL AlwaysOn Availability Groups & Failover Clusters
• Experience improving performance through debugging and query optimization.
• Expertise in creating & managing scheduled database maintenance routines.
• Strong understanding of Active Directory as it relates to SQL databases (least-privilege access).
• Advanced scripting using

  PowerShell, T-SQL, Python

  , and automation for database tasks.
• Experience managing

  large databases (10TB+)

  .
• Strong knowledge of security hardening based on vulnerability-driven approaches.
• Ability to interpret and leverage database metrics & statistics for capacity and performance planning.
• Experience collaborating with development teams on cloud migrations or large-scale infrastructure programs.
• Experience building and delivering services using APIs.
• Familiarity with modern DevOps tools:

  GIT, Azure DevOps, Terraform, ARM Templates, Jenkins, Ansible, Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes

  .
• Strong infrastructure knowledge: virtualization, networks, Windows/Linux, storage.
• Understanding of PaaS, Infrastructure-as-Code, Compliance-as-Code.
• Experience in modern engineering and Agile/DevOps ("shift left") practices.
• Strong scripting skills in at least one programming language (PowerShell, TSQL, Python, .NET, Node.js, Ruby, Java).
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams including developers, analysts, engineers, and data scientists.
• Deep understanding of cloud ecosystems, technologies, and emerging trends.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to self-manage.
• Vendor management experience.

Preferred Skills & Qualifications

• Working knowledge of additional database engines:

  Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB

• Azure database services:

  Cosmos DB, MySQL Flexible Server, PostgreSQL Flexible Server

• AWS database services:

  Aurora, DynamoDB

• Experience designing and implementing cloud database solutions on

  Azure/AWS RDS

• Hands-on Kubernetes engineering & support.
• Experience in cloud transformation initiatives across large tech organizations.
• Cloud database certifications (Azure SQL mandatory; AWS RDS beneficial).
• Knowledge of cloud service capabilities across

  AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba Cloud

  .
• Understanding of cloud-native backup solutions.
• Experience with

  Power BI

   and

  Azure Power Platform

  .
• Experience working in the

  financial sector

   (advantage).

What You’ll Be Like

• A passionate engineer/technologist with curiosity and drive.
• Eager to learn and adopt new technologies.
• A strong advocate for cloud adoption and cloud transformation.
• Collaborative, proactive, and solution-oriented.