Azure SQL Migration Engineer - Cloud Platform Modernisation

UBDS Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

UBDS Group is seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Engineer to lead complex SQL Server to Azure SQL migrations and modernisation in a Microsoft Azure environment. You will work with cloud architects, engineers and delivery teams to assess, plan and execute migrations, ensuring secure and high-performing database platforms.

The role focuses on database platform engineering, migration, optimisation and post-migration improvements within Azure environments, with strong collaboration across

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL.
• Proven experience delivering complex database migrations into Microsoft Azure.
• Strong SQL development skills, including T-SQL, stored procedures, queries and database objects.
• Experience with database discovery, assessment and dependency analysis.
• Experience planning and executing end-to-end database migrations.
• Strong understanding of database schema migration, data migration and validation.

Responsibilities

• Undertake database discovery and assessment across SQL Server environments.
• Identify dependencies, integrations, data flows and migration constraints.
• Plan and deliver SQL Server and Azure SQL migrations, including schema and data migration.
• Perform data validation and reconciliation to ensure migration success.
• Troubleshoot and optimise database performance, availability and reliability.
• Support database stabilisation, remediation and post-migration improvements.
• Provide database platform engineering expertise across cloud migration workstreams.
• Support database automation and Infrastructure as Code activities.
• Integrate deployment and migration activities into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure and architecture teams to resolve dependencies.
• Produce technical documentation, migration plans, risk assessments and recommendations.
• Identify technical debt and contribute to database modernisation.

Skills

SQL Server & Azure SQL

Migration planning

SQL development (T-SQL)

Analytical problem-solving

Stakeholder communication

Cloud platform engineering

Tools

Azure DevOps

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform/Bicep

Job description

UBDS Group is seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Engineer to lead complex SQL Server to Azure SQL migrations and modernisation in a Microsoft Azure environment. You will work with cloud architects, engineers and delivery teams to assess, plan and execute migrations, ensuring secure and high-performing database platforms.

The role focuses on database platform engineering, migration, optimisation and post-migration improvements within Azure environments, with strong collaboration across