SQL Customer Engineer

Penta Consulting are a technology resource solutions provider to leading OEMs across the EMEA region. We are working with our most esteemed client in the search for a SQL Customer Engineer / Cloud Solution Architect. This role requires a SQL Server expert who can design, build and architect SQL Server solutions from scratch.

More details can be found below.

Mandatory:

• Performance Optimization and Tuning Capabilities
• Partitioning data implementations
• Metadata management and repository usage.
• Database schema creation and management.
• HADR
• Backup and recovery.
• Ensuring data integrity.
• Ensuring High availability and Disaster recovery.
• SQL code reviews with ability to dissect query plan, T-SQL code
• Sargability of statements
• Data modeling and database design.
• Indexing strategy
• Procedural skills.
• Data security.
• Data Encryption
• Auditing
• Replication of data
• SQL Edition and version differences with discontinued and deprecated features
• Upgrade process
• Storage management techniques.
• Data Engine Capacity planning.
• General database management, Policy based management
• Extended events and Traces
• Basic Licensing and support scenarios

Nice to have:

• Windows Failover Clustering
• SQL Server Reporting service
• SQL server Integration Service
• SQL Server Analysis Service
• Powershell

Minimum requirements for Customer Engineer:

• A key technical resource for the customer
• Focused on delivering proactive services such as education workshops, delivering assessments and providing expert guidance
• Join a highly motivated team of leading industry experts
• Preview new technology before others in the industry and learn how to make the best of it
• Visit customers to train them and share industry and development expertise
• Be part of a thriving developer community that's constantly looking for ways to improve our customers’ experience, software development goals and use of technology.
• Build strong customer relationships and ensure deliveries align with customer projects and milestones.
• Gain access to expertise and support from Microsoft’s consulting practice and product groups
• Continually learn and grow professionally
• Analyze problems
• Maintain, extend accreditations and certifications, assist in developing best practices for key technologies and products to support technical team readiness
• Demonstrate strong communication skills; ability to develop strategic ongoing customer relationships, gain trust and respect for Microsoft Premier.
• Engineers must also possess strong technical writing, presentation, and training skill