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Job Title: Sr. Azure Cloud & Database Engineer

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Sr. Azure Cloud & Database Engineer to join the Technical Services team here at SNDL. This is a hybrid role that combines traditional database administration with deep expertise across the Microsoft Azure ecosystem. You will be responsible for managing optimizing and securing our SQL Server environment (both on-premises and cloud) while also serving as the go-to authority for Azure platform services.

This is a hands-on technical role with significant influence on our cloud database strategy platform governance and overall operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

SQL Server Database Administration

- Manage configure and optimize SQL Server databases (on-premises and Azure SQL).
- Implement and monitor backup/recovery high availability (HA/DR) and performance tuning strategies.
- Administer security roles and permissions ensuring compliance with governance and regulatory requirements.
- Troubleshoot database incidents ensuring minimal downtime and business disruption.
- Support both OLTP and OLAP/analytics environments.

Azure Platform Administration

- Oversee Azure services and technologies serving as an SME in this area to the entire Technical Services team.
- Configure and manage Azure resources (VMs networking storage monitoring RBAC).
- Implement infrastructure-as-code (IaC) automation and DevOps practices for Azure workloads.
- Monitor and manage cost optimization usage and performance of Azure services.

- Optimize Azure resource consumption and spend while ensuring Azure resources provide consistent and reliable resources for applications and workloads.
- Collaborate with security and compliance teams on Azure AD / Entra ID governance.

Strategic & Cross-Functional

- Partner with software developers data engineers and analysts to enable data product development and application/analytics workloads.
- Provide architectural input for hybrid and cloud-native solutions.
- Develop and maintain documentation standards and best practices for both SQL Server and Azure resources.
- Stay current with Microsofts cloud and database roadmap recommending upgrades and innovations.

Qualifications

- 5 years as a SQL Server DBA with strong knowledge of optimizing managing and securing OLTP and OLAP databases.
- 3 years hands-on experience with Azure services including Storage Security VMs Networking Monitoring.
- Expertise in backup/DR planning high availability and database security.
- Strong background in Azure administration: RBAC cost management automation.
- Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD pipelines for database and application deployments.
- Microsoft certifications (e.g. Azure Database Administrator Associate Azure Solutions Architect or Data Engineer) are highly desirable.
- Excellent problem-solving skills communication abilities and ability to work cross-functionally.