Datavail

Backend Engineer

• Serve as a trusted advisor to clients by identifying performance, availability, and security risks before incidents
• Advise clients on cloud database architecture, migration, and cost optimization across AWS and Azure IaaS and PaaS
• Lead architecture design, disaster recovery planning, and capacity forecasting initiatives
• Own the end-to-end database service lifecycle, including backup strategy, HA/DR configuration, proactive tuning, and platform roadmap planning
• Define and track database availability and performance SLOs
• Drive automated remediation for recurring failure patterns
• Lead root-cause analyses and post-incident reviews, converting findings into automation or process improvements
• Design and implement scalable database structures, partitioning strategies, and audit specifications
• Develop and maintain deployment and rollback scripts
• Coordinate version updates across environments
• Build Python and PowerShell automation for backup validation, monitoring, alerting, and reporting integrations such as Power BI
• Migrate and support SSIS packages and SSAS cubes
• Develop stored procedures for reporting
• Collaborate directly with client technical teams and executive stakeholders to translate technical findings into business recommendations
• Serve as Primary DBA for one or more clients and lead service delivery within Datavail’s multi-tiered managed-services model

Senior Database Engineer