- As a Support Escalation Engineer, you will be an important member of the Azure SQL DB support delivery team.
- Participate in on call coverage rotation (approx. 15% of the time)
- Lead engineering investigations to bring quicker issue resolution to support incidents impacting our customers and improve customer experience.
- Build solutions, help create tools, help automate issue detection and diagnosis, to enable customers or support to self-resolve the issues.
- Identify emerging trends or re-occurring escalation scenarios and drive engineering opportunities to mitigate and/or eliminate them from the workflow. This can include a range of potential work item categories, such as self-healing mechanisms, self-serve, transparency, automation, and/or increasing the capabilities for Azure support.
- Contribute to product improvements by filing impactful bugs, and design change requests and helping developers to fix and ship them to production, preventing customers from being impacted.
- Receive escalated, technically complex mission critical or politically hot customer issues, and maintain ownership of the issue until resolved completely.
- Maintain strong working knowledge of products and report software bugs and customer product enhancements to the Product Group
- The successful candidate will have a solid understanding of the competitive landscape and use this understanding to influence decision-makers in both support and the Azure SQL DB engineering groups.
- Work directly with our Azure SQL DB Product Group to provide world-class engineering support at a product component level.
- Perform complex product debugging and remediation when needed; working alongside the Azure SQL DB development teams to drive support incident resolution for configuration, code, or other service deficiencies impacting customers.
- Identify emerging trends or recurring escalation scenarios and drive engineering opportunities to mitigate and/or eliminate them from the workflow.
- This can include a range of potential work item categories; such as self-healing mechanisms, transparency, automation, and/or increasing the capabilities of Azure SQL DB.
- 6+ years of Mandatory experience in SQL Server Products as a SQL Server Engine Administrator
- 2+ years of experience in one or more of the following: Azure, Cloud Computing
- 2+ years of experience with various versions of SQL Server and SQL Server Management Studio
- 2+ years of experience with SQL Query optimizations including queries, joins, aggregations
- 2 + years of Database Administration: c creation, configuration, backup, restoration security, permissions, and access control
- Skill in setting up and configuring SQL Server instances, including installation, patching, and upgrades.
- Proficiency in managing databases, including schema design, table creation, and data modification.
- Knowledge of backup and recovery strategies, including regular backups, full and differential backups, and point-in-time restores.
- Competence in managing database security, roles, permissions, and auditing
- Troubleshooting Skills:
- Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot complex database issues, including but not limited to performance problems, connectivity issues, and data corruption.
- Scripting and Automation:
- Ability to create and maintain scripts for automating routine database tasks, such as backups, maintenance, and monitoring.
- Proficiency in scripting languages like PowerShell, Python, or Bash for task automation.
- Experience in scheduling and managing automated tasks using tools like SQL Server Agent or external schedulers.
- High Availability and Disaster Recovery:
- Hands-on experience with SQL Server high availability features like AlwaysOn Availability Groups, Failover Clustering, and database mirroring.
- Ability to configure and manage high availability solutions for fault tolerance and business continuity.
- Knowledge of disaster recovery planning, including backup strategies and off-site data replication.
- SQL Server Internals:
- In-depth knowledge of SQL Server architecture, including memory management, query processing, and storage engine.
- Understanding of how data is stored on disk, including filegroups, data files, and log files.
- Familiarity with the system catalog views and system dynamic management views (DMVs) for monitoring and troubleshooting
- Performance Tuning:
- Proficiency in diagnosing and resolving performance issues by optimizing hardware resources, memory, and disk I/O.
- Ability to fine-tune SQL Server settings, including memory allocation, parallelism, and query concurrency.
- Skill in using performance monitoring tools like SQL Server Profiler, Extended Events, and Performance Monitor.
- Debugging and Profiling Tools:
- Familiarity with SQL Server debugging and profiling tools, including SQL Server Profiler, Extended Events, and Dynamic Management Functions (DMFs).
- Capability to capture and analyze query execution plans and runtime statistics to identify performance bottlenecks.
- Proficiency in troubleshooting and resolving database issues using these tools.
- Operating Systems:
- Knowledge of Windows Server operating systems, as SQL Server often runs on Windows servers.
- Knowledge of Client SQL Server at dev level (SQL language, Stored Procedures, etc.)
- Competency with Windows, networking, Active Directory, Clustering or virtualization
- Experience managing applications and services through PowerShell, Bash or similar scripting languages.
- Familiarity with development: tools, language, process, methods, troubleshooting
- Experience with JSON, Markdown Language, Azure DevOps is a plus
- Development/Coding (Optional)
- Experience with C#, JAVA, .NET, PowerShell, CLI, Client Azure SQL is a preferred
- Service engineering and/or DevOps experience at internet scale involving user data and/or software development for an enterprise level product
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Description
Are you an experienced Support Engineer - Azure SQL with a desire to excel? If so, then Talent Software Services may have the job for you Our client is seeking an experienced Support Engineer - Azure SQL to work in Redmond, WA.
Position Summary: We are building an engineering team within support to be "the differentiator in the marketplace and need the best and brightest to take our SQL Cloud solutions to the next level.
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