Database Platform Engineer

Soni; King of Prussia (PA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Soni is seeking a Database Platform Engineer to manage enterprise SQL Server environments across on-premises and Azure, ensuring availability, security, backup/recovery, and compliance while partnering with infrastructure, application, and data teams.

You will administer SQL Server across production, development, test and DR, tune performance, implement backup strategies, enforce security and SOX controls, and support fabric-enabled workloads with documentation and change management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or equivalent.
• Experience administering Microsoft SQL Server in enterprise environments.
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric.
• Strong performance tuning, backup/recovery, security, and HA.
• Experience supporting mission-critical systems.
• SQL certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain Microsoft SQL Server databases across production, development, test, and disaster recovery environments.
• Monitor database health, performance, and availability; perform tuning, patching, and upgrades.
• Design and manage backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Manage database security, access controls, and support SOX/IT audit compliance.
• Optimize query performance, indexing, and overall database scalability.
• Support application upgrades, migrations, integrations, and reporting solutions.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, cloud, and analytics teams, including support for the Microsoft Fabric environment.
• Maintain documentation and execute changes through established change management processes.

Skills

Database administration

SQL Server performance tuning

Backup and disaster recovery

Security & compliance (SOX)

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or related

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

PowerShell

Azure

SQL Server Management Studio

Job description

We are seeking an Database Platform Engineer to manage and support enterprise database environments across on-premises and Azure platforms. This role is responsible for ensuring database availability, security, performance, backup/recovery, and compliance while partnering with infrastructure, application, and data teams to support critical business systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain Microsoft SQL Server databases across production, development, test, and disaster recovery environments.
• Monitor database health, performance, and availability; perform tuning, patching, and upgrades.
• Design and manage backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Manage database security, access controls, and support SOX/IT audit compliance.
• Optimize query performance, indexing, and overall database scalability.
• Support application upgrades, migrations, integrations, and reporting solutions.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, cloud, and analytics teams, including support for the Microsoft Fabric environment.
• Maintain documentation and execute changes through established change management processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor\'s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.
• Microsoft SQL Server administration experience in enterprise environments.
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric.
• Strong knowledge of database performance tuning, backup/recovery, security, and high availability.
• Experience supporting mission-critical production systems.
• Microsoft SQL certification preferred.

Preferred Experience

• ERP platforms such as JD Edwards.
• PowerShell or T-SQL scripting.
• High availability/disaster recovery architectures.
• SOX or other highly regulated environments.