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 solid 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
sequent

📌 Engineer III (Bengaluru)
🏢 Wipfli
📍 Bengaluru