Cloud Database Engineer - Azure SQL, HA/DR, Terraform

Subway Group; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension/401K/RSP (country specific)

Competitive Bonus

Tuition Reimbursement

Company Holidays

Volunteering time

Job summary

Subway Headquarters seeks a senior Cloud Database Engineer to administer and optimize cloud database platforms across AWS and Azure, ensuring high availability, security, and scale. You’ll work with development, cloud engineering, and architecture teams to support Subway’s data infrastructure.

Responsibilities include provisioning Azure SQL Database, DR testing, performance tuning, and enforcing encryption and access controls.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• 5+ years of database administration experience in an enterprise environment.
• 8+ years of Windows system administration experience.
• 3+ years designing and testing HA/DR configurations for prod databases.
• 3+ years using Terraform to provision and manage cloud DB services.
• Strong hands-on with Azure SQL Database and SQL Server.
• Experience applying AI/ML tools to database performance optimization, anomaly detection, or query analysis.

Responsibilities

• Provision, configure, and manage cloud database services including Azure SQL Database.
• Design and implement high-availability and disaster recovery configurations for all database platforms.
• Monitor performance and resolve bottlenecks via query tuning and index optimization.
• Enforce database security: encryption, access controls, audit logging.
• Manage backup, restoration, and point-in-time recovery; conduct DR tests.
• Collaborate on schema design, capacity planning, and migrations.
• Develop runbooks, standards docs, and change-management procedures.
• Evaluate new cloud database technologies and suggest platform improvements.
• Coach Infra teams on Active Directory and vulnerability remediation.

Skills

Azure SQL Database

SQL Server

Terraform

AI/ML for databases

HA/DR design

Database performance tuning

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field

Tools

Terraform

Azure SQL Database

SQL Server

Job description

Subway Headquarters seeks a senior Cloud Database Engineer to administer and optimize cloud database platforms across AWS and Azure, ensuring high availability, security, and scale. You’ll work with development, cloud engineering, and architecture teams to support Subway’s data infrastructure.

Responsibilities include provisioning Azure SQL Database, DR testing, performance tuning, and enforcing encryption and access controls.