Senior Database Engineer – SQL Server

About the role

Westpac is hiring a Senior Database Engineer in Sydney to optimise and safeguard its mission-critical SQL Server estate across thousands of on-premises and cloud-based instances. The role leads the adoption of AI in database operations, using analytics and trending to predict issues, speed up resolution and support data-driven decisions on capacity, performance, cost and risk. It partners with technology teams and vendors to deliver a highly available, secure and compliant database platform, takes part in the on-call roster and provides technical support during major incidents.

Required profile

• 8+ years of hands-on database engineering experience supporting enterprise Microsoft SQL Server 2016+ environments, including SSIS, PBIRS, SSAS and large-scale implementations.
• Experience supporting large-scale, mission-critical environments, ideally in banking or financial services.
• Ability to turn technical findings into recommendations on capacity, software currency, cloud migration, cost optimisation and risk.
• Flexibility to join an after-hours/weekend on-call roster and support major incidents.

Required skills

• SQL Server internals, relational database design and performance engineering, with root-cause analysis using Extended Events, performance data and monitoring telemetry.
• High availability and disaster recovery: Always-On Availability Groups, Windows Server Failover Clustering and backup/recovery strategies.
• Automation and scripting with T-SQL, PowerShell and JSON, via DevOps and infrastructure-as-code.
• AI and AIOps: AI-assisted development, query optimisation, anomaly detection, log and telemetry correlation, predictive capacity forecasting.
• Data analytics with Power BI to build performance baselines and spot trends.
• Cloud platforms: Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance and/or AWS RDS for SQL Server, with automated tuning and monitoring.
• Database security and compliance: encryption, auditing, least-privilege access.
• Desirable: PostgreSQL, MongoDB or Neo4j; SAP and Unix platforms.

What we offer

• Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including employee-only mortgage rates.
• Flexible work arrangements and leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave.
• Tailored learning and development opportunities.
• Volunteering initiatives with the community.