Lead Azure SQL performance engineering through Query Store, execution plans, Dynamic Management Views, and Azure monitoring. Improve measurable database performance across enterprise platforms.

This senior Azure DBA role focuses on diagnosing regressions, workload bottlenecks, and capacity needs across Microsoft SQL Server environments.

Responsibilities include T-SQL optimization, indexing, partitioning, locking, deadlocks, resource analysis, automatic tuning, Database Advisor governance, and validated improvements.

Key Responsibilities

Lead performance diagnostics and tuning across SQL platforms

Detect query-plan regressions and workload bottlenecks

Establish performance baselines and capacity forecasts

Optimize complex T-SQL, procedures, indexing, and statistics





Govern automatic tuning and Database Advisor recommendations

Requirements

8-14 years of relevant database administration experience

Deep Query Store and execution-plan analysis knowledge

Expertise in T-SQL optimization, blocking, and deadlocks

Experience with Azure SQL elastic pools and cost optimization

Robust capacity management and performance monitoring experience

Bring advanced SQL performance analysis, Azure monitoring, T-SQL optimization, and capacity management to production database environments.

📌 Azure SQL Performance Engineer (Winnipeg)
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📍 Winnipeg