Senior Database Platform Engineer

Job summary

Own the reliability, performance, security, and evolution of business-critical database platforms, combining hands-on operations with modernization. Manage SQL Server and Azure SQL environments, troubleshoot performance, validate backup and disaster recovery, automate operational processes, and improve monitoring and observability. Collaborate with platform, data, and operations teams to support PostgreSQL, Databricks integration, cloud-native database services, and lakehouse initiatives.

Benefits

Qualifications

• At least five years of database engineering or DBA experience supporting production platforms
• Strong SQL Server administration, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and optimization experience
• Experience with Azure SQL and cloud-hosted database services
• Experience with high availability, disaster recovery, backups, restores, and recovery planning
• Experience managing business-critical production services
• Automation experience using PowerShell, Python, or similar scripting languages
• Strong understanding of database security, access control, and governance
• Experience with structured incident, problem, and change management processes
• Preferred: PostgreSQL administration and engineering experience
• Preferred: Databricks administration or integration experience
• Preferred: Infrastructure-as-Code familiarity with Terraform or Bicep
• Preferred: Cloud migration or database modernization experience

Responsibilities

• Own the operational health, availability, and performance of SQL Server and Azure SQL platforms
• Provision, configure, and maintain production and non-production database environments
• Plan and execute upgrades, patching, and platform lifecycle activities
• Diagnose and resolve database performance issues across infrastructure, workloads, and applications
• Design and validate backup, recovery, and disaster recovery capabilities
• Lead restore testing and recovery readiness for critical platforms
• Implement proactive monitoring, alerting, and observability
• Improve operations through automation, root cause analysis, and incident learning
• Modernize database platforms toward PostgreSQL and cloud-native services
• Support integration between databases, Databricks, and analytics services
• Implement role-based access controls and database security standards
• Support audit, compliance, and governance activities

Skills

Work schedule

Travel

Industry

Relocation