Azure Cloud DBA: DevOps-Driven, HA & Performance

Travelbyinvestec; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Investec is seeking an experienced DBA skilled in Azure and on‑prem SQL databases with a strong Dev DBA background. The role emphasizes database design, performance tuning, security, and data migration, plus DR technologies such as clustering and log shipping.

Daily collaboration with development and support teams, and proactive management of concurrent tasks are required. The ideal candidate will design, deploy, and manage cloud-based Azure SQL databases, maintain pipelines, and ensure robust

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of experience with Azure.
• Designing, deploying, and managing cloud-based solutions.
• Azure SQL Server DBA with Dev Ops familiarity.
• Strong SQL language capability.
• Managed and implemented Azure Databases.
• Create/maintain bicep pipelines and documentation.
• Managed and implemented on-prem databases.
• Manage project work, service packs, security, patches, password rotations, audit and alerting.
• Understand the differences between Azure vs on-prem.
• Setup and maintained database standards.
• Create monthly trending and audit reports.
• Strong database design with normalization and read-write considerations.
• Performance tuning from concept to physical troubleshooting.
• Excellent knowledge of stored procedures, triggers, views, and functions.
• Experience with large complex mission-critical systems.
• Exposure to Oracle/Mongo/Elastic/PostgreSQL is a plus.
• Ability to write PowerShell/Python scripts.
• RDBMS high availability and performance tuning knowledge.
• Proficiency with AI-enabled productivity tools (e.g., Copilot) to enhance efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Work with dev and support teams daily for project work, new implementations, enhancements, or issue resolution.
• Proactive, disciplined, and able to handle multiple concurrent items under pressure.
• Maintain disaster recovery technologies and database security best practices.
• Ensure backups, recovery, and DR testing are regularly performed and documented.

Skills

Azure

SQL proficiency

Database design

Performance tuning

Disaster recovery

Security concepts

Data migration

DevOps principles

On-prem & cloud databases

Scripting (PowerShell/Python)

Tools

Azure Databases

Log shipping

Mirroring

Replication

Backup and restore

PowerShell

Python

Job description

Investec is seeking an experienced DBA skilled in Azure and on‑prem SQL databases with a strong Dev DBA background. The role emphasizes database design, performance tuning, security, and data migration, plus DR technologies such as clustering and log shipping.

Daily collaboration with development and support teams, and proactive management of concurrent tasks are required. The ideal candidate will design, deploy, and manage cloud-based Azure SQL databases, maintain pipelines, and ensure robust