Senior Cloud Services Engineer

Pearson VUE

Senior Cloud Services Engineer responsible for architecture and maintenance of database systems. Collaborating with teams to design complex database strategies and mentor developers.

Posted 4/28/2026full-timeRemote • 🇮🇳 IndiaSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureMS SQL ServerMySQLSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Responsible for the architecture, planning, implementation, and maintenance of database systems including strategic database design, planning, and execution
Work with development teams to design and implement complex database layouts and strategies
Responsible for performance monitoring and tuning
Apply new technologies and techniques to improve production systems, capacity planning, data integrity, backup and recovery solutions, and database security
Regularly work with development to improve production systems, tune workloads, and implement new database layouts and strategies
Mentor development teams to communicate and encourage database and T-SQL best practices

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, MIS, Math or technical field or equivalent combined work experience
7+ years working with relational database systems
5+ years Database Design / Data Modeling
5+ years Microsoft SQL Server 2019 and newer
3+ years Azure SQL Managed Instance and Azure SQL Database
5+ years working in a high demand 24x7 web environment including participation in a production support on call rotation
5+ years writing, optimizing, and supporting T-SQL
5+ years’ experience with performance monitoring and tuning tools including SQL Server Query Store and Extended Events
Deep understanding of T-SQL execution plans
Proven success identifying and proposing solutions to performance problems
Advanced experience managing database security using least-privilege methodology
Advanced experience automating tasks with SQL Agent and Azure Automation PowerShell Runbooks
Experience creating and enforcing data and database coding standards
Experience creating technical documentation
Ability to work across functional groups, development, operations, configuration management, end users, and program managers on multiple projects
MySQL experience preferred
Experience working with data security preferred
Data Warehousing experience - NICE TO HAVE
Experience with Change Data Capture (CDC) is preferred
Experience with Change Tracking a plus
Experience with GitHub a plus
Ability to see industry trends as they apply to databases

Benefits

Comp & perks

Database Security
Database Change Management
Capacity Planning and monitoring
Data modelling, logical and physical database design
Alert Response
Database performance tuning
Research and provide guidance on new database technologies implementation
Follow organization security standards and procedures
Communicate and encourage database and T-SQL best practices
Provide guidance to development teams

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Hard Skills & Tools

database architecturedatabase designdata modelingMicrosoft SQL Server 2019Azure SQL Managed InstanceAzure SQL DatabaseT-SQLperformance monitoringdatabase securityautomation with SQL Agent

Soft Skills

mentoringcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingtechnical documentation