Database Platform Engineer

About the role

This role is responsible for ensuring database availability, security, performance, backup/recovery, and compliance while partnering with infrastructure, application, and data teams to support critical business systems.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain Microsoft SQL Server databases across production, development, test, and disaster recovery environments.
• Monitor database health, performance, and availability; perform tuning, patching, and upgrades.
• Design and manage backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Manage database security, access controls, and support SOX/IT audit compliance.
• Optimize query performance, indexing, and overall database scalability.
• Support application upgrades, migrations, integrations, and reporting solutions.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, cloud, and analytics teams, including support for the Microsoft Fabric environment.
• Maintain documentation and execute changes through established change management processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.
• Microsoft SQL Server administration experience in enterprise environments.
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric.
• Strong knowledge of database performance tuning, backup/recovery, security, and high availability.
• Experience supporting mission-critical production systems.

Preferred Experience

• ERP platforms such as JD Edwards.
• PowerShell or T-SQL scripting.
• High availability/disaster recovery architectures.
• SOX or other highly regulated environments.

Microsoft SQL certification preferred.