Responsibilities
- Administer and support SQL Server databases across on premises and Azure IaaS (VM) environments, including installation, configuration, patching, and upgrades (2017–2022).
- Manage Azure SQL PaaS offerings, including Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance, ensuring high availability, security, and performance.
- Design, implement, and maintain High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HA/DR) solutions such as: Always On Availability Groups, Failover Clustering, Log Shipping, Azure SQL Failover Groups.
- Perform database upgrades and migrations, including: SQL Server version upgrades, Azure SQL (IaaS & PaaS) migrations, Cross platform data migrations as required.
- Monitor database performance and proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks (CPU, memory, I/O).
- Implement and enforce security best practices, including role based access control, encryption (TDE).
- Execute and validate backup, restore, point in time recovery, and disaster recovery drills across platforms.
- Monitor and tune database performance using execution plans, indexing strategies, statistics management, and platform metrics.
- Collaborate with developers, architects, and infrastructure teams for database design and integration.
- Automate routine DBA tasks using scripts (PowerShell, T-SQL, Python, etc.).
- Support cloud database platforms (Azure SQL, AWS RDS, Snowflake, etc.).
- Participate in incident, problem, change, and release management processes, ensuring SLA adherence and proper documentation.
- Maintain accurate database documentation, runbooks, and operational standards.
- Administer Snowflake data warehouse environments, including user management, performance optimization, data loading, and cost monitoring.
- Support Azure Cosmos DB, including account configuration, throughput management, monitoring, and availability.
Work Arrangement
Remote (City/Region)
Team
Team size: 250+ colleagues country wide in Romania. Structure: Works with application teams, cloud engineers, data engineers, security teams, and business stakeholders across development, non-production, and production environments.
Additional Information
- Candidates can choose to work entirely remotely or from offices in Cluj-Napoca, Oradea, and Bucharest.
- Private health insurance is provided by Medicover.
- Work from home fixed monthly budget.
- Monthly budget available for flexible benefits via Edenred Benefit platform.
- Sports benefit: reimbursement within budget for sporting activities such as football, climbing, gym, or other sports.
