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Data Platform Engineer
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What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Strong experience administering and optimising SQL Server environments including high availability disaster recovery replication patching and maintenance
- Expertise with Azure SQL Database including performance tuning geo-replication backup recovery scalability and cost optimisation
- Advanced SQL T-SQL and database design skills including data modelling and query optimisation
- Deep experience troubleshooting performance issues using execution plans indexing strategies Query Store Extended Events and workload analysis
- Strong PowerShell and Python scripting skills
- Experience implementing monitoring observability and alerting solutions using Azure-native services
- Strong knowledge of Azure security and governance including Entra ID RBAC PIM managed identities and Defender for SQL
- Experience working within regulated security-conscious or highly governed environments
- Knowledge of Azure networking and secure connectivity patterns
- Experience supporting cloud migration platform modernisation or transformation initiatives
- Excellent problem-solving skills sound judgement and a proactive engineering mindset
Nice to have
- Hands-on
- Proactive
- Collaborative
- Security-minded
- Detail-oriented
- Resilient
Day to day
- Own and improve the reliability security and performance of SQL Server and Azure SQL platforms
- Support the transition from legacy SQL Server environments to a modern Azure-first data ecosystem
- Collaborate with engineering architecture operations and data teams to shape platform architecture tooling and operational practices
- Drive automation observability incident response root cause analysis and continuous improvement across the data platform