Cloud Data Platform Administrator
Food For The Poor, Inc.2 months ago
Honduras (city not specified)Senior
Responsibilities
- Administer, monitor, maintain, and optimize SQL Server and AWS RDS database environments.
- Perform database performance tuning, troubleshooting, indexing optimization, query analysis, backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and business continuity activities.
- Implement and maintain database security, auditing, access controls, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions.
- Support database upgrades, patches, migrations, maintenance, incident resolution, and production operations.
- Administer Microsoft Fabric capacities, workspaces, security groups, tenant settings, development environments, test environments, and production environments.
- Monitor Fabric utilization, storage consumption, workload performance, platform reliability, and scalability.
- Implement governance, security, access management, compliance, and operational controls for cloud data platforms.
- Support migration initiatives from legacy data platforms to Microsoft Fabric.
- Support GitHub repositories, source control, branching strategies, release reviews, and deployment activities.
- Assist with CI/CD deployments across Fabric, Power BI, SQL, and analytics assets.
- Automate operational and administrative tasks using PowerShell, SQL, and cloud-native tools.
- Develop and maintain operational procedures, deployment procedures, standards, and technical documentation.
- Collaborate with Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, BI, application, and business teams to support secure and reliable solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
- At least 5 years of experience administering SQL Server environments.
- Experience supporting cloud database platforms such as AWS RDS, Azure SQL, or similar technologies.
- Strong experience with SQL Server performance tuning, troubleshooting, backup, restore, and recovery processes.
- Experience implementing and supporting high availability and disaster recovery solutions.
- Experience supporting Microsoft Fabric, Power BI Service, Azure Data Services, or modern cloud data platforms.
- Experience with source control systems and CI/CD concepts.
- Experience supporting security, governance, and operational compliance requirements.
- Microsoft Fabric administration experience is preferred, including management of Fabric capacities and workspace governance.
- Experience supporting enterprise analytics and data engineering environments is preferred.
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code concepts is preferred.
- Microsoft, AWS, Azure, SQL Server, or Fabric-related certifications are preferred.
- Experience supporting Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, and BI teams is preferred.
- Knowledge of cloud database operations, monitoring, alerting, automation, database security, governance, and compliance controls.
- Familiarity with PowerShell, SQL scripting, GitHub, source control, and release management practices.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, documentation, organizational, collaboration, and customer service skills.