Remote Database Consultant & Performance Engineer

Fortified Data; Raleigh, Northern (NC, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortified Data is a fully remote database services firm delivering performance tuning, upgrades, migrations, and high availability projects across SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, and cloud platforms. You will collaborate with account executives and senior consultants to translate client needs into actionable engagements.

The Consultant will join a Professional Services team, handling discovery calls, scoping, and delivering measurable results for clients with a focus on reliability,

Qualifications

• Four or more years of database administration or database engineering experience.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server and hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, Oracle, or MySQL.
• Experience with performance tuning, including indexing, query optimization, and wait analysis.
• Experience implementing or supporting high availability and disaster recovery solutions.
• Experience with cloud database services such as Azure SQL, Azure SQL Managed Instance, or Amazon RDS.
• Scripting experience with T-SQL and PowerShell or a similar language.
• Experience communicating directly with clients or business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Deliver Professional Services engagements across SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, and Azure SQL, including performance tuning, version upgrades, consolidations, and platform migrations.
• Implement and test high availability and disaster recovery solutions, including Availability Groups, log shipping, replication, and failover cluster instances.
• Conduct database health checks and assessments and document findings and recommendations for clients.
• Migrate databases between on-premises environments and Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud, including platform-as-a-service targets such as Azure SQL Managed Instance and Amazon RDS.
• Join discovery calls with Account Executives and senior consultants, explain technical options in plain language, and help scope proposed work.
• Contribute technical content and effort estimates to proposals and statements of work.
• Troubleshoot technical issues during engagements and bring in senior consultants when an issue calls for it.
• Build and maintain scripts and documentation that support database builds, schema changes, and task automation.
• Communicate status, risks, and blockers clearly to clients and the internal project team.
• Recognize follow-on needs during engagements, including Managed Services fit, and bring them to the account team.

Skills

Database administration

Database engineering

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

Oracle

MySQL

Performance tuning

T-SQL

PowerShell

Client communication

Tools

Azure SQL

Azure SQL Managed Instance

Amazon RDS

Databricks

Snowflake

Microsoft Fabric

Zendesk

Harvest

Job description

Fortified Data is a fully remote database services firm delivering performance tuning, upgrades, migrations, and high availability projects across SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, and cloud platforms. You will collaborate with account executives and senior consultants to translate client needs into actionable engagements.

The Consultant will join a Professional Services team, handling discovery calls, scoping, and delivering measurable results for clients with a focus on reliability,