Senior Database Reliability Engineer — Azure & DevOps Focus

COUNTRY Financial®; Bloomington (IL); On-site; USD 94,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Insurance benefits

401(k) with company match

Job summary

COUNTRY Financial is seeking a Database Reliability Engineer to ensure the availability and reliability of enterprise database platforms. You will partner with infrastructure teams and business users to deploy solutions, automate processes, and enable self-service capabilities.

You will design, implement, and support high-availability, disaster recovery, and security initiatives in Microsoft Azure, using IaC and modern DevOps practices.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years in database IT or related field.
• Experience automating admin/monitoring/ops with PowerShell, C#, Python or similar.
• Strong experience with Microsoft Azure services and Azure SQL.
• Proven ability to design and support high availability, DR, backup, and resiliency in Azure.
• Experience with IaC and CI/CD tooling (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Terraform, ARM/Bicep).
• Proficient in diagnosing SQL Server performance using DMVs, Query Store, wait stats, and execution plans.
• Knowledge of Azure Entra ID and database security practices (RBAC, encryption, Key Vault).
• Ability to optimize compute/storage costs and scaling in cloud databases.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, implement, and support COUNTRY’s IT database solutions.
• Ensure solutions meet security, availability, capacity, resiliency, and performance requirements.
• Stay current with industry-leading database technologies and trends.
• Collaborate with IT counterparts to recommend technology solutions.
• Develop and maintain a multi-year IT strategy focused on continuous improvement.
• Create and maintain architecture artifacts and system documentation.

Skills

5+ years in database IT

Automation scripting

Azure services

HA/DR in Azure

IaC/CI/CD/DevOps

SQL Server performance tuning

Database security

Cost/perf optimization

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Terraform

ARM/Bicep

Azure SQL

SQL Server

Extended Events

Job description

COUNTRY Financial is seeking a Database Reliability Engineer to ensure the availability and reliability of enterprise database platforms. You will partner with infrastructure teams and business users to deploy solutions, automate processes, and enable self-service capabilities.

You will design, implement, and support high-availability, disaster recovery, and security initiatives in Microsoft Azure, using IaC and modern DevOps practices.