Senior Azure SQL & Cloud Migration Engineer

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

Job summary

UBDS in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer with strong SQL Server and Azure SQL expertise to lead complex database migrations and modernisation programmes.

This hands‑on role focuses on database platform engineering in Azure environments, collaborating with architects, engineers and delivery teams to assess, plan and execute migrations while ensuring secure, high‑performing database platforms.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL in enterprise contexts.
• Proven ability to plan and execute end-to-end database migrations to Azure.
• Strong SQL development skills (T-SQL, stored procedures, queries, objects).
• Experience with database discovery, assessment, dependency analysis, and validation.

Responsibilities

• Undertake database discovery and assessment across existing SQL Server environments.
• Identify dependencies, 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 successful migration outcomes.
• Troubleshoot and optimise database performance, availability and reliability.
• Support stabilisation, remediation and post-migration improvements.
• Provide database platform engineering across cloud migration workstreams.
• Support 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 technical dependencies.
• Produce technical documentation, migration plans, risk assessments and improvement recommendations.
• Identify technical debt and contribute to modernisation and continuous improvement.
• Operate within structured, agile delivery environments with governance.

Skills

SQL Server

Azure SQL

T-SQL

Migration planning

Data validation

Performance tuning

Stakeholder comms

Agile delivery

Security & governance

Cloud architecture

Tools

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Bicep

PowerShell

Python

SQL tooling

Job description

UBDS in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer with strong SQL Server and Azure SQL expertise to lead complex database migrations and modernisation programmes.

This hands‑on role focuses on database platform engineering in Azure environments, collaborating with architects, engineers and delivery teams to assess, plan and execute migrations while ensuring secure, high‑performing database platforms.