IT & Software

Azure Data Engineer (Fabric & Cloud Data Platform)

Rackspace Technology

Hayes · Greater London · United Kingdom

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 24x7 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

Reference: WJ-747_30165477

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