Overview
Position: Engineer III - Azure SQL Cloud Database Developer (8 to 12 years of experience) Primary Purpose of the position: The Azure SQL Cloud Database Developer is responsible for designing, developing, optimizing, securing, monitoring, and maintaining cloud database platforms that support business-critical applications. This role has a strong database development focus and partners closely with application development, product, architecture, and operations teams to ensure database solutions are scalable, reliable, cost-effective, secure, and aligned with product delivery needs. The role provides hands-on support for Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL performance tuning, schema design, indexing strategy, data modeling, backup and recovery, disaster recovery planning, production troubleshooting, database standards, and optimization opportunities that may require changes in application code and data access patterns.
Skills, Competencies, Experience and Responsibilities: • Develop, monitor, secure, administer, and support Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL databases,



elastic pools, Azure SQL Managed Instance where applicable, and related cloud database services, ensuring availability, performance, reliability, and operational readiness. • Develop a robust understanding of supported business products, workflows, SLAs, data-critical domains, operational dependencies, and current database architecture to guide informed database decisions. • Optimize database and application performance through query tuning, indexing strategy, execution plan review, statistics maintenance, workload analysis, storage management, application data access pattern review, and proactive identification of performance and cloud cost improvement opportunities. • Partner with application development and product teams to review schema design, data modeling, entity ownership, data access patterns, application code impacts, Entity Framework Core usage, pagination strategy, GUID versus sequential

📌 Engineer III (Bengaluru)
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📍 Bengaluru