Job description
Elite Technology is a leading, independent technology company that helps law firms drive profitability through improved operational effectiveness, increased efficiency, and greater visibility across their business. Our cutting-edge digital financial management and business operations solutions drive success for firms around the globe by improving finance and accounting operations, including billing, invoicing, payments, and financial reporting. By bringing together data, insights, and tools, we enable law firm leaders to make informed business decisions to build and manage their businesses more effectively and efficiently.
Job Description:
We are seeking an Database Engineer to join our Cloud Operations team. You will play a key role in designing, developing, and optimizing our database infrastructure that powers mission-critical applications. As a mid-level engineer, you’ll collaborate closely with senior engineers, DevOps, and application developers to ensure the performance, availability, and scalability of our database systems across the organization.
What You’ll Do:
- Maintain, monitor, and optimize Azure SQL Databases, Elastic Pools, Managed Instances, and Azure VMs to ensure high performance and reliability.
- Design and implement indexing strategies, partitioning, and statistics maintenance to improve query performance.
- Support high availability and disaster recovery configurations, including Geo-Replication, Failover Groups, and Point-in-Time Restore.
- Create, maintain, and improve PowerShell scripts and Azure. Automation Runbooks for backups, maintenance tasks, and alerting.
- Assist with schema changes, deployment planning, and T-SQL code reviews.
- Analyze execution plans, query store, and wait statistics to troubleshoot slow-running queries.
- Manage role-based access control (RBAC), auditing, and compliance settings in Azure SQL.
- Contribute to performance testing, capacity planning, and migration projects.
- Participate in rotating on-call support and incident response processes.
- Monitor Azure SQL database performance and availability, responding to alerts and proactively addressing bottlenecks before they affect production.
- Execute index and statistics maintenance tasks using automation to sustain optimal query performance across environments.
- Investigate slow-running queries using Query Store and execution plan analysis to ensure consistent application responsiveness.
- Enforce database security best practices by managing access via Azure AD roles and PIM (Privileged Identity Management), auditing permissions, ensuring encryption is enabled, and maintaining compliance with enterprise security policies.
- Deploy schema changes and database updates in coordination with development and DevOps teams to maintain release stability.
- Manage automated backup, retention, and restore processes to ensure data recoverability and business continuity compliance.
- Collaborate with engineers and analysts to troubleshoot data access issues, ensuring uptime and service reliability for internal applications.
- Review and interpret system logs, wait statistics, and resource metrics to detect anomalies and propose remediation.
- Support incident response and root cause analysis efforts, providing detailed findings and contributing to knowledge base documentation.
- Run Azure CLI or PowerShell scripts to manage database configurations, automate maintenance, and enforce infrastructure standards.
- Maintain comprehensive documentation for database procedures, configurations, and troubleshooting playbooks to ensure knowledge continuity, team alignment, and operational transparency.
What You’ll Need:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field required.
- 3–5 years of experience with SQL Server, including strong T-SQL, performance tuning, and index optimization skills.
- Hands-on experience managing Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instances, and SQL Server on Azure VMs.
- Solid understanding of Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Azure CLI, and Terraform for managing database resources.
- Experience working with Dynamic Management Views (DMVs), Query Store, and Execution Plans.
- Familiarity with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and third-party database monitoring tools like SolarWinds DPA or Redgate.
- Experience implementing and maintaining automated backup, maintenance, and monitoring processes in Azure.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams.
- Ability to thrive in a dynamic, evolving environment and manage multiple priorities.
Benefits:
- Competitive Compensation Package ($124,000 – $146,000 base salary + variable component)
- Comprehensive Healthcare Coverage (Health, Dental, Vision)
- Retirement Savings Plan with an Employer Contribution
- Professional Development Opportunities
- Time Off
- Wellness Initiatives
- Employee Assistance Program
- Generous Global Parental Leave
- Calm, free premium subscription
- Employee Discount Program
Please note that we do not offer sponsorship for this position.
Additional Information
At Elite Technology, we embrace an employee-centric, flexible work model that empowers you to do your best work in the environment that suits you. However, we also recognize the importance of in-person collaboration for key moments that truly matter.
In our flexible remote approach, you have the freedom to choose a workspace within your home country that best fits your needs. Our corporate offices are located in New York City, Los Angeles, Costa Rica, and the Philippines, providing additional options for those who prefer or need a hybrid work environment.
Our diverse global team spans the U.S., Canada, U.K., Costa Rica, the Philippines, and Australia. Please note that at this time, we are unable to hire employees located in Quebec or Ontario Provinces, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Louisiana, and Oklahoma .
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
We also provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.
We are not accepting applications submitted through recruiting agencies.
