Cloud Database Engineer
First seen by Alion on Oct 14, 2026.
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