Azure Database Engineer - Performance & HA Lead

The Intersect Group; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

The Intersect Group seeks an experienced Database Engineer to design, implement, and optimize enterprise database environments across on‑premises and Microsoft Azure platforms. You will lead administration of SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, ensuring high availability, security, and performance across hybrid environments.

You will automate routine tasks, collaborate with development teams, and contribute to DR/backup strategies while supporting monitoring, alerting, and capacity planning in a

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL experience as a Database Engineer or DBA.
• Experience administering databases across data center and Azure environments.
• Strong performance tuning, execution plan analysis, indexing, and query optimization skills.
• Experience with high availability, disaster recovery, backups, and recovery for enterprise databases.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, and maintain SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL across on‑premises and Azure.
• Monitor performance, capacity, and health; develop proactive alerts and dashboards.
• Troubleshoot bottlenecks, incidents, blocking, and failed jobs; perform root cause analysis.
• Design and maintain backup, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions.

Skills

SQL Server

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Azure SQL

T-SQL

PowerShell

Python

Azure CLI

Automation

Monitoring

Tools

Azure Monitor

Log Analytics

Azure SQL Database

SQL Server

Job description

The Intersect Group seeks an experienced Database Engineer to design, implement, and optimize enterprise database environments across on‑premises and Microsoft Azure platforms. You will lead administration of SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, ensuring high availability, security, and performance across hybrid environments.

You will automate routine tasks, collaborate with development teams, and contribute to DR/backup strategies while supporting monitoring, alerting, and capacity planning in a