Senior Azure SQL & Cloud Migration Engineer

UBDS Group; Manchester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

UBDS Group is seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Engineer with strong SQL Server and Azure SQL expertise to drive complex database migrations and modernisation across Azure environments. You will work with Cloud Architects, Engineers and delivery teams to assess databases, plan migrations and ensure secure, reliable platforms.

This hands-on role focuses on database platform engineering, migration, optimisation and automation within Microsoft Azure, with collaboration across application,

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL.
• Experience delivering complex database migrations to Microsoft Azure.
• Strong SQL development skills (T-SQL, stored procedures, queries).
• Experience with database discovery, assessment and dependency analysis.
• Experience planning end-to-end database migrations.
• Understanding of data migration, schema migration and validation.
• Experience with database performance tuning and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments.

Responsibilities

• Undertake database discovery and assessment across SQL Server environments.
• Plan and deliver SQL Server and Azure SQL migrations including schema and data migration.
• Perform data validation to ensure successful migration outcomes.
• Troubleshoot and optimise database performance, availability and reliability.
• Support stabilisation, remediation and post-migration improvements.
• Integrate database activities into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
• Produce migration plans, risk assessments and governance documentation.
• Collaborate with architecture and infra teams to resolve dependencies.

Skills

SQL Server

Azure SQL

T-SQL

Data migration

CI/CD

DevOps

Problem solving

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Bicep

PowerShell

Job description

UBDS Group is seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Engineer with strong SQL Server and Azure SQL expertise to drive complex database migrations and modernisation across Azure environments. You will work with Cloud Architects, Engineers and delivery teams to assess databases, plan migrations and ensure secure, reliable platforms.

This hands-on role focuses on database platform engineering, migration, optimisation and automation within Microsoft Azure, with collaboration across application,