Azure Data Engineer (Fabric & Cloud Data Platform)
Rackspace Technology · Hayes, United Kingdom ·
- Work mode
- Hybrid
- Category
- Data engineering
- Salary
- GBP 52,118 – 67,568 / year
The person administers and tunes customer SQL Server databases in a hybrid-cloud environment: performance tuning, backups/recovery, HA/DR setups, space management, and scripting to automate DBA tasks. They also advise customers on SQL Server best practices and join 24x7 on-call rotations for production support.
You will plan, implement and optimize databases to meet customers’ needs, focusing on reliability, performance, and security. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to design policies and tools, support migration and DR setups, and automate DBA tasks. The role combines hands-on administration with customer advisory work, in a hybrid-cloud context. You’ll engage with senior teammates and on-call rotations to ensure maximum uptime and value for clients.
Pay / Benefits- annual bonus or incentives
- equity awards
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- benefits mention in the process
- hybrid work options
- competitive compensation (52,118–67,568/year)
- Tune databases by interpreting monitoring stats for optimal performance
- Perform DBA activities: configuration, space management, backups and recovery
- Help establish database management policies, security, maintenance and utilization; set and monitor standards
- Develop customer/internal tools to automate DBA tasks via scripts or software
- Advise customers on SQL Server best practices and disaster recovery setups
- Participate in sales calls to provide DB expertise for hardware/software/services improvements
- Collaborate with product teams to support roll-out of new products
- Provide 24x7 production support for SQL Server infrastructure with senior DB team
- Join the on-call rotation for database issues
- Contribute to security assessments, capacity planning, restores and uptime efforts
- Advanced knowledge of indexes, index management, integrity checks and statistics
- Advanced knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery solutions and database architecture design
- Experience in SQL Server administration and related environments
- Ability to build tools and scripts to automate DBA tasks
- Experience in production support and on-call rotations
- Familiarity with monitoring, performance tuning and capacity planning
- Analytical skills
- Process improvement
- Project management
- SQL Server administration
- Database performance tuning
- Disaster Recovery planning and implementations