DatabaseAdministrator

At TOPdesk, our Azure SQL estate is a critical part of how we deliver a reliable SaaS platform to more than 10 million users worldwide. As our platform evolves, we’re looking for a senior Database Administrator with deep Azure SQL expertise to help us manage performance, scalability, and cost in a more structural and proactive way. This is not a traditional, ticket-driven DBA role focused on break-fix support. The role exists to help TOPdesk move from reactive optimisation and outlier hunting toward long-term ownership of the Azure SQL estate. We opened this role because Azure SQL is a material part of TOPdesk's hosting cost and the foundation of customer-facing performance, and we're at a point in our platform evolution where reactive optimisation isn't enough. We're actively decomposing a long-tenured Java/MS SQL monolith into microservices, and we need deep database expertise embedded in that journey, not called in after incidents.You’ll work closely with platform engineering and development teams while we continue decomposing a long-standing Java and Microsoft SQL monolith into microservices. The goal is to ensure the data layer remains a strength throughout that transition — not a constraint. Your mission Azure SQL represents a significant part of TOPdesk’s hosting cost and plays a major role in application performance for our customers. Today, a large part of our optimisation work happens after incidents or escalations. We want to get ahead of that. Your mission is to bring deep database performance engineering expertise into TOPdesk and help create a structurally healthy Azure SQL environment: performant, observable, scalable, and cost-efficient. You’ll combine performance engineering, governance, and developer enablement to improve how we operate and evolve our database landscape. What you will own * Cost management and resource optimisation. Identify the inefficiencies — noisy neighbours, abusive API usage, sub-optimal resource allocation — that drive Azure