Concentrix is looking for a highly skilled Cloud Solution Architect SQL+Fabric to help enterprise customers design, secure, optimize, and modernize their SQL Server environments across on-prem, Azure, and hybrid platforms.
In this role, you’ll lead architecture reviews, technical workshops, and high-priority escalations, using your deep expertise in SQL Server HA/DR, performance tuning, security, and Azure SQL platform design to solve complex business and technical challenges.
- Role type: Technical architect + trusted advisor
- Primary focus: SQL Server (on‑prem, Azure, hybrid), HA/DR, security, performance, design reviews
- Customer engagement level: Design authority, escalation engineer, workshop/delivery lead
- Typical audience: Senior DBAs, Infra Architects, CISOs, Platform Owners
Qualifications:
Demonstrated mastery of:
- SQL Server 2017–2025 (Windows & Linux)
- Engine internals:
- Storage engine, buffer pool, log architecture
- TempDB internals & contention patterns
- Query Optimiser behaviour (statistics, cardinality estimation)
- Advanced T‑SQL (windowing, CTEs, dynamic SQL, performance patterns)
Hands‑on design and troubleshooting of:
- Always On Availability Groups (single + multi‑subnet)
- Distributed AGs
- Failover Cluster Instances
- Backup/restore topology (RPO/RTO driven)
- DR validation & game‑day testing
Strong operational depth in:
- Query Store, Extended Events, DMVs
- CPU, memory, IO bottleneck analysis
- Index strategy (filtered, columnstore, compression)
- TempDB pressure diagnostics
- Parameter sniffing & workload instability
Enterprise‑grade SQL security design:
- Authentication: Windows, Entra ID, contained users
- gMSA / dMSA for SQL services (Windows)
- Encryption: TDE, Always Encrypted, TLS hardening
- Least‑privilege service & agent design
- Auditing, SQL Vulnerability Assessment
Ability to recommend and defend platform choices:
- Azure SQL DB vs Managed Instance vs SQL on VM
- Hybrid patterns (Arc‑enabled SQL, lift‑and‑shift vs refactor)
- Network‑isolated (private endpoint) SQL designs
- Cost and performance trade‑off analysis
- Lead L300/L350 workshops
Translate customer pain- Microsoft‑aligned solution
- Write architecture decisions, risks & trade‑offs
- Collaborate with Azure Architects & Security CSAs
Language requirements: English B2+, Spanish B2+/native