Azure Data Engineer (Fabric & Cloud Data Platform)

Overview

You will plan, implement and optimize databases to meet customers’ needs, focusing on reliability, performance, and security. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to design policies and tools, support migration and DR setups, and automate DBA tasks. The role combines hands-on administration with customer advisory work, in a hybrid-cloud context. You’ll engage with senior teammates and on-call rotations to ensure maximum uptime and value for clients.

Pay / Benefits

• annual bonus or incentives
• equity awards
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• benefits mention in the process
• hybrid work options
• competitive compensation (52,118–67,568/year)

Responsibilities

• Tune databases by interpreting monitoring stats for optimal performance
• Perform DBA activities: configuration, space management, backups and recovery
• Help establish database management policies, security, maintenance and utilization; set and monitor standards
• Develop customer/internal tools to automate DBA tasks via scripts or software
• Advise customers on SQL Server best practices and disaster recovery setups
• Participate in sales calls to provide DB expertise for hardware/software/services improvements
• Collaborate with product teams to support roll-out of new products
• Provide 24×7 production support for SQL Server infrastructure with senior DB team
• Join the on-call rotation for database issues
• Contribute to security assessments, capacity planning, restores and uptime efforts

Key requirements

• Advanced knowledge of indexes, index management, integrity checks and statistics
• Advanced knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery solutions and database architecture design
• Experience in SQL Server administration and related environments
• Ability to build tools and scripts to automate DBA tasks
• Experience in production support and on-call rotations
• Familiarity with monitoring, performance tuning and capacity planning

• Analytical skills
• Process improvement
• Project management
• SQL Server administration
• Database performance tuning
• Disaster Recovery planning and implementations

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