Platform Engineering Consultant - Cloud and Database Services

Job Title:

Platform Engineering Consultant - Cloud and Database Services

Location:

Berwyn, PA, US, 19312

Business Unit:
Nul

Posting Date:
May 16, 2026

The Platform Engineering Consultant - Cloud and Database Services designs, builds, and operates cloud data infrastructure as a product—delivering secure, reliable, and scalable database services through automation and self-service. This role blends cloud engineering (Infrastructure-as-Code, networking, observability, and reliability engineering) with hands‑on DBA responsibilities to ensure cloud workloads and database platforms meet performance, availability, security, and compliance requirements. The engineer partners with infrastructure, application, data, and security teams to standardize patterns, reduce operational toil, and enable teams to ship changes safely across development, test, and production environments.

Key technologies:
Azure (primary) and AWS cloud platforms, Azure SQL (SQL Database/Managed Instance), SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB

• Own the cloud platform lifecycle in Azure and database lifecycle in hybrid environments (provisioning, configuration, upgrades, patching, and decommissioning) with supporting capabilities in AWS.
• Design, deploy, and operate Azure-based cloud infrastructure aligned with established architectures and governance standards. Own production workloads and services, implement Infrastructure as Code and automation, optimize performance and cost, and serve as an escalation point for complex operational issues.
• Build and maintain cloud-based data pipelines supporting ingestion, transformation, and delivery of data for analytics and operational use cases. Optimize pipelines for reliability and performance, and collaborate with application and analytics teams to meet data requirements.
• Perform and coordinate core DBA operations: maintenance windows, patching/updates, configuration management, and scheduling/ownership of operational jobs (e.g., SQL Server Agent or equivalent tooling).
• Administer cloud and database platform access controls (users/roles, least privilege), assist with audits, and implement standardized onboarding/offboarding processes.
• Implement observability for database services (metrics, logs, traces, alerting) using tools such as Azure Monitor/Log Analytics and AWS Cloud Watch; proactively manage health, capacity, and performance.
• Contribute to financial initiatives for cloud and database platforms. Plan and manage storage, compute, and licensing/cost consumption; optimize for performance and cloud spend using Azure Cost Management (and AWS cost tools as needed), tagging, and chargeback/showback practices.

• Tune managed and self-hosted databases (query plans, indexing, partitioning, configuration) to meet latency and throughput targets.
• Execute and automate database maintenance practices (index/statistics maintenance, integrity checks, housekeeping) and establish performance baselines.
• Diagnose and remediate bottlenecks across the stack (application, network, storage, compute) using data-driven analysis and load testing.
• Plan and execute database upgrades and migrations (cloud adoption, version upgrades, cross‑environment refreshes) with minimal downtime and clear rollback strategies.
• Design scalable patterns for OLTP and analytics workloads, including read replicas, caching, and right‑sized tiers.

• Implement automated backup, restore, and point-in-time recovery strategies aligned to RPO/RTO objectives.
• Own restore execution for incidents and user requests (PITR, logical restores, and cross‑environment restores) and continuously improve restore speed and reliability.
• Regularly test restores and disaster recovery runbooks; perform game days and document outcomes.
• Engineer multi‑region and cross‑zone resiliency patterns where required, balancing availability, consistency, and cost.

• Own cloud and database platform security posture: identity/access (e.g., Azure AD/RBAC), network controls, secrets management (e.g., Azure Key Vault),…