Cloud Data Performance Engineer

McMillan Shakespeare; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Culture & recognition

Novated leasing

Parental leave 12 weeks

Learning & development

Sonder wellbeing platform

Income protection insurance

Employee Share Plan

Diversity & inclusion

Hybrid working

Job summary

McMillan Shakespeare is seeking an experienced Cloud Data Specialist to own performance, data integrity, and scalability across enterprise systems. This hands-on role targets an expert Database Administrator or Performance Engineer who collaborates with architects, developers and data engineers to ensure secure and scalable data environments.

Deep expertise in database administration, data modelling, query optimisation and performance tuning is required for complex, high-volume enterprise

Qualifications

• 5+ years DBA experience in a corporate complex business.
• Deep expertise in query tuning, indexing, and execution plans.
• Strong understanding of database performance engineering.

Responsibilities

• Own performance, stability, and availability of enterprise databases.
• Lead query optimisation, indexing, and performance tuning.
• Design and optimise data models (normalisation, schema design).
• Embed best practices across DevOps and engineering teams.

Skills

Database Administration

Performance Engineering

Query optimisation

Data modelling

DevOps collaboration

Cloud data platforms

Tools

SQL

Job description

McMillan Shakespeare is seeking an experienced Cloud Data Specialist to own performance, data integrity, and scalability across enterprise systems. This hands-on role targets an expert Database Administrator or Performance Engineer who collaborates with architects, developers and data engineers to ensure secure and scalable data environments.

Deep expertise in database administration, data modelling, query optimisation and performance tuning is required for complex, high-volume enterprise