Azure SQL DBA & Cloud Data Platform Engineer

Broadleaf Services Inc; Manassas (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Broadleaf Services Inc. in Manassas, VA is seeking a Database Administrator for a full-time, on-site role. The candidate will maintain SQL Server health, tune queries, and work with Azure SQL Managed Instances to ensure high availability and performance.

The role also covers infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, security reviews, monitoring, and data migrations from on-premises SQL Server to Azure SQL MI, with emphasis on reliability and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• Mastery of SQL Server internals and T-SQL performance tuning.
• Experience managing Azure SQL Managed Instances and HA architectures.
• Strong knowledge of Azure networking, VNets, DNS, and private connectivity.
• Proven automation experience with IaC and CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of cloud security, encryption, and auditing.

Responsibilities

• Maintain core database health and performance tuning for SQL Server.
• Architect, provision and manage Azure SQL MI environments.
• Lead migrations from on-premises SQL Server to Azure SQL MI.
• Develop IaC and automated deployment workflows with IaC tools.
• Implement DB DevOps practices with version-controlled schemas and pipelines.
• Enforce least-privilege access and manage secrets and encryption.
• Design end-to-end monitoring and alerting for databases.
• Support AI-enabled data initiatives and data governance.

Skills

SQL Server internals

Azure SQL MI

Cloud networking

DevOps practices

Security & auditing

Security+

Tools

Git

CI/CD tools

Terraform

Bicep/ARM

Azure CLI

Job description

Broadleaf Services Inc. in Manassas, VA is seeking a Database Administrator for a full-time, on-site role. The candidate will maintain SQL Server health, tune queries, and work with Azure SQL Managed Instances to ensure high availability and performance.

The role also covers infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, security reviews, monitoring, and data migrations from on-premises SQL Server to Azure SQL MI, with emphasis on reliability and cost efficiency.