Database Engineer
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Founded in 2015 in Ukraine, with a representative office in Estonia, Diya has grown into a global IT solutions provider and a proud part of Euvic Group. We help small and medium-sized businesses optimize operations, enhance security, and establish a strong digital presence. Over the past decade, we have built a reputation as a trusted technology partner, a Microsoft partner, delivering tailored IT solutions that drive efficiency, innovation, and growth.
We are a friendly crowd of it-savvies. Working shoulder to shoulder in a virtual crew gives us the flexibility to provide better solutions and exceed our customers’ expectations.
Now we are looking for a Business Cloud Database Engineer with extensive experience working with Azure SQL databases.
This engineer will be responsible for the operational readiness, performance, and reliability of this system complex and will be able to manage the response to database incidents as part of logistics operations that run 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Responsibilities
Operate and Protect the Estate
- Monitor availability, performance, and capacity across all Azure SQL databases using Datadog and native Azure tooling
- Own routine maintenance: statistics, index management, job health, backup verification, and restore testing
- Right-size compute and storage, and flag cost optimization opportunities
- Maintain database auditing for permission, principal, and schema changes, sent to Datadog
- Data Movement and Replication
- Own operational reliability of replication and data movement into and between Azure SQL databases
- Detect and resolve replication lag, failures, and blocking before they become business-impacting
- Take priority direction from Data Platform and Governance on data movement needs Support the migration of remaining SQL Managed Instance workloads to PaaS
Incident Response
- Act as primary responder for database-related Pl and P2 incidents
- Diagnose and resolve blocking, runaway queries, stale statistics, and resource exhaustion
- Maintain database runbooks so any on-call engineer can execute first response
- Contribute to post-incident reviews with clear root cause and preventive actions
Support Development Teams
- Tune inefficient queries using Query Store, DMVs, and execution plan analysis
- Advise on schema design, indexing, and data access patterns for new services
- Establish standard schema deployment patterns for CI/CD
- Provision least-privilege database access through infrastructure-as-code and group-based models, with consistent parity across dev, test, and prod
Qualifications
- 5+ years of hands-on SQL Server and Azure SQL experience in production environments
- Deep performance tuning: Query Store, DMVs, execution plans, indexing strategy, statistics, and wait analysis
- Azure SQL Hyperscale and SQL Managed Instance operations, including replicas, scaling, and backup and restore
- Experience with data replication and data movement troubleshooting
- Strong T -SQL
- Infrastructure-as-code for database resources and access (Terraform preferred) Experience participating in on-call rotations for production systems
- Clear written English for runbooks, incident updates, and Jira tickets
Nice to have:
- Datadog Database Monitoring
- Azure Monitor and Log Analytics
- Microsoft Entra authentication for Azure SQL, including managed identities
- Experience migrating workloads from SQL Managed Instance to Azure SQL PaaS
- Logistics or high-transaction operational environments
What we offer
- Comfortable work environment, remote work
- Operating hours — 3 PM — 11 PM
- Competitive salary
- Paid vacation and sick leave
- Healthcare insurance and gym
- Training and valuable experience
- Work in a young and friendly team
- Career opportunities and professional growth