Cloud Database Engineer

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