Cloud Database Engineer – Azure, Terraform, HA/DR Leader

Subway Group; Shelton, Northern (CT, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension/401K/RSP (country specific)

Competitive Bonus

Tuition Reimbursement

Company Holidays

Volunteering time

Job summary

Subway Headquarters is seeking a Cloud Database Engineer to administer and optimize cloud database platforms across AWS and Azure, ensuring high availability, security, and scalable data infrastructure for thousands of franchisees worldwide.

The role collaborates with application, cloud engineering and architecture teams to design HA/DR, perform query tuning, and implement encryption, access controls and audit logging while aligning with the company's fast-paced, owner-minded culture.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of database administration experience in an enterprise environment.
• 8+ years of experience with Windows system administration.
• 3+ years of experience with Microsoft SQL Server.
• 3+ years of experience designing and testing HA/DR configurations for production database systems.
• 3+ years using Terraform to provision and manage cloud database services.
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure SQL Database.
• Experience with database performance tuning, query optimization, and index design.
• Proficiency with Terraform for provisioning and managing cloud database infrastructure (required).
• Experience applying AI/ML tools to database performance optimization, anomaly detection, or query analysis (required).
• Bachelor’s degree in Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• People Management: No | Department: Tech for Technology | Location: USA | Travel: Less than 10%.

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 database performance; identify and resolve bottlenecks through query tuning and index optimization.
• Enforce database security standards including encryption at rest and in transit, access controls, and audit logging.
• Manage database backup, restoration, and point-in-time recovery procedures; conduct regular DR tests.
• Collaborate with application and architecture teams on schema design, capacity planning, and migrations.
• Develop and maintain database runbooks, standards documentation, and change management procedures.
• Evaluate emerging cloud database technologies and provide recommendations for platform improvements.
• Coach Infrastructure colleagues on Active Directory and vulnerability remediation best practices.

Skills

Terraform

Azure SQL Database

SQL Server

Query optimization

Performance tuning

Index design

AI/ML for DB optimization

Windows administration

HA/DR design

Database security

Education

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

Tools

Terraform

Azure SQL Database

Microsoft SQL Server

Active Directory

Job description

Subway Headquarters is seeking a Cloud Database Engineer to administer and optimize cloud database platforms across AWS and Azure, ensuring high availability, security, and scalable data infrastructure for thousands of franchisees worldwide.

The role collaborates with application, cloud engineering and architecture teams to design HA/DR, perform query tuning, and implement encryption, access controls and audit logging while aligning with the company's fast-paced, owner-minded culture.