Principal Database Engineer — South Yarra, Stonnington Area

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Milestone IT is a leading recruitment agency specializing in connecting top IT talent with dynamic organizations. We are partnering with a blue-chip client in Melbourne to find a highly skilled Principal Database Engineer. About the Role As a Principal Database Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in driving the success of our client's database infrastructure. You will lead and oversee large-scale database initiatives, ensuring alignment with business goals and providing strategic recommendations on database technologies, design, and best practices. Key Responsibilities Lead and oversee large-scale database initiatives, ensuring alignment with business goals. Provide strategic recommendations on database technologies, design, and best practices. Develop and implement technical standards to ensure consistency, performance, and security across the environment. Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and align technical solutions accordingly. Ensure database integrity and optimal performance. Oversee the implementation, upgrade, and maintenance of databases. Evaluate new database technologies, and cloud-hosted solutions, and assess potential benefits, risks, and suitability for the organization. Essential Skills Demonstrated experience in Database Design and implementation of robust, scalable solutions. Strong understanding of design best practices and principles. Extensive experience in SQL Server 2008R2/2012/2014/2016/2019/2022 instance installation, configuration, and security implementation. Expertise in designing, managing, and supporting Cloud Database platforms like Azure SQL Database. Proven history of actively leading SQL Server upgrades, migrations, SSIS, and SSRS. Expertise in managing and supporting large-scale databases on multi-disk arrays. Skilled in diagnosing and resolving complex database issues, including performance bottlenecks, deadlocks, resource contention, etc. Strong expertise in database tuning and optimization. Advanced knowledge of index creation and Query optimization will be pivotal to the role. In-depth knowledge of backup strategies, restore processes, and disaster recovery models. If you are a highly skilled Principal Database Engineer with a passion for driving database excellence, we encourage you to apply. Apply Now