Senior Database Platform Engineer — Azure SQL & DR Expert

Medical Guardian; Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental &amp

Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick Time Off

Company Paid Short Term Disability and

Life Insurance

Job summary

Medical Guardian is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to own and steward the enterprise database platform, including Microsoft SQL Server, Azure Cosmos DB, and future technologies. You will drive performance, security, backups, and disaster recovery while coordinating with Data Operations, AI/ML, and Infrastructure teams to ensure scalable, secure, and resilient data services.

As the primary database expert, you will lead modernization efforts, support Nexus platform migrations, and contribute

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience administering Microsoft SQL Server in enterprise production environments.
• Expertise in performance tuning, indexing, query optimization, and workload analysis.
• Experience owning backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and business continuity processes.
• Strong understanding of SQL Server architecture, storage management, filegroups, partitioning, and high availability technologies.
• Experience supporting upgrades, migrations, patching, and configuration/lifecycle management.
• Deep understanding of database security, permissions, encryption, auditing, and access management.

Responsibilities

• Database Administration and Platform Ownership: act as technical owner for enterprise database platforms and set maintenance standards.
• Performance, Reliability, and Capacity: monitor and optimize database performance, plan capacity, and maintain observability dashboards.
• Backup, Recovery, and Business Continuity: own backup, retention, restoration, and DR planning with defined RPO/RTO targets.
• Incident Response and Operational Readiness: participate in on-call rotations, coordinate incidents, and maintain runbooks and recovery procedures.
• Automation and Database Engineering: develop scripts and automation for provisioning, maintenance, and deployment; enable CI/CD for databases.
• Security, Compliance, and Data Protection: implement and maintain security controls; ensure HIPAA/PCI-DSS/SOC 2 compliance evidence.
• Knowledge Continuity and Cross-Training: maintain runbooks and train backup engineers; ensure cross-team coverage.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: work with Data Operations, AI/ML, Infrastructure, Security, and Architecture.

Skills

Microsoft SQL Server

Azure Cosmos DB

Azure SQL Database

AlwaysOn Availability Groups

PowerShell

T-SQL

Python

CI/CD

Terraform

Bicep

ARM Templates

Azure Monitor

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

GitHub Actions

AzureDevOps

Security Compliance

Tools

Redgate SQL Toolbelt

GitHub Actions

AzureDevOps

Azure Monitor

Job description

Medical Guardian is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to own and steward the enterprise database platform, including Microsoft SQL Server, Azure Cosmos DB, and future technologies. You will drive performance, security, backups, and disaster recovery while coordinating with Data Operations, AI/ML, and Infrastructure teams to ensure scalable, secure, and resilient data services.

As the primary database expert, you will lead modernization efforts, support Nexus platform migrations, and contribute