Senior Azure SQL Performance Engineer

Elevation Group; Den Haag; Hybrid; EUR 75,000 - 91,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Pension scheme

Personal development budget

Vitality Budget

NS Business Card

Bike lease

Home office allowance

10% time for personal development

Modern laptop and phone

Job summary

Elevation Group is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to own and optimise the Azure SQL environment behind a large-scale SaaS platform serving millions of users. You will focus on proactive improvements, not ticket-driven firefighting, shaping the data stack for today and the next years.

You will collaborate with Cloud and SRE teams, advise developers on database design, and drive cost-efficient performance, scalability and reliability across multi-tenant workloads.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years hands-on experience as a Database Administrator, Database Engineer or Database Performance Specialist.
• Strong expertise in Microsoft SQL Server.
• Hands-on experience with Azure SQL, preferably Azure SQL Managed Instances.
• Experience with database performance tuning, including query optimisation, execution plans and indexing.
• Knowledge of locking, concurrency and database performance in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Take technical ownership of the Azure SQL environment and continuously improve its performance and scalability.
• Analyse execution plans, query response times, locking, concurrency and other database performance issues.
• Optimise indexes and queries for high-volume API traffic.
• Identify inefficient resource usage, noisy neighbours and unnecessary Azure SQL costs.
• Improve monitoring and observability to understand which services and customers generate database load and costs.
• Manage and validate backup, restore and disaster recovery processes.
• Work with Cloud and SRE teams on high availability, security, patching and database lifecycle management.
• Advise software engineering teams on database design and help prevent technical debt within new microservices.
• Contribute to architectural decisions around multi-tenancy, sharding and event-driven architecture.
• Help engineering teams become more independent in managing their data solutions while acting as the internal database specialist.

Skills

Microsoft SQL Server

Azure SQL

Query performance tuning

Indexing

Production databases

Job description

Elevation Group is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to own and optimise the Azure SQL environment behind a large-scale SaaS platform serving millions of users. You will focus on proactive improvements, not ticket-driven firefighting, shaping the data stack for today and the next years.

You will collaborate with Cloud and SRE teams, advise developers on database design, and drive cost-efficient performance, scalability and reliability across multi-tenant workloads.