Remote Senior SQL Server DBA – Azure Cloud, Perf & Inc.

bridge351; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and Life Insurance

Job summary

bridge351 is seeking a senior SQL Server DBA to own production database operations in a cloud-integrated Azure environment. The role requires technical autonomy, cloud-native expertise, and end-to-end responsibility across the DBA lifecycle, from tuning to incident resolution and release management.

Responsibilities include managing production SQL Server databases with Azure integration, AGs/FCI, incident resolution, and deployments via Azure DevOps/UCD. Strong Azure experience is mandatory.

Qualifications

• University degree in Computer Science, Engineering or comparable field.
• 5–10 years hands-on experience with Microsoft SQL Server in production environments.
• Strong Azure platform experience is mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Administrate Microsoft SQL Server databases in production integrated with Azure cloud services.
• Manage Always-On Availability Groups, Failover Cluster Instances, and storage account operations.
• Lead incident resolution: diagnose, remediate and produce root cause analyses.
• Execute and validate production releases using Azure DevOps and UrbanCode Deploy (UCD).
• Perform query tuning, T-SQL optimization and execution plan analysis.
• Administer and optimize Azure SQL, Azure Pipelines, Azure Monitor and Azure Event Hub.
• Enforce security, permissions management and audit-quality documentation.
• Collaborate with application teams, infrastructure partners and release management.
• Contribute to runbook quality and continuous improvement of database operations.

Skills

English proficiency

Ownership & accountability

Structured troubleshooting

Education

University degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

SQL Server

Always-On AG

FCI (Failover Cluster Instances)

T-SQL scripting

PowerShell automation

Azure DevOps

Jira

UrbanCode Deploy

DBeaver

PostgreSQL

Job description

bridge351 is seeking a senior SQL Server DBA to own production database operations in a cloud-integrated Azure environment. The role requires technical autonomy, cloud-native expertise, and end-to-end responsibility across the DBA lifecycle, from tuning to incident resolution and release management.

Responsibilities include managing production SQL Server databases with Azure integration, AGs/FCI, incident resolution, and deployments via Azure DevOps/UCD. Strong Azure experience is mandatory.