Senior Azure Database Engineer

About the role

Mastercard is seeking a Senior Azure Database Engineer to join its Database Engineering team in Ireland. The role focuses on designing, implementing, and optimizing Azure‑based database solutions that support a seamless customer experience across the company’s global payments ecosystem.

Key responsibilities

• Design and deploy Azure database services such as Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Cache for Redis, and Azure Data Factory.
• Optimize performance, scalability, and reliability of database workloads.
• Implement backup, recovery, and disaster‑recovery strategies.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and ensure high availability and data integrity.
• Automate deployments and updates using Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or Bicep.
• Collaborate with development teams on data modelling, schema design, and query optimisation.
• Maintain compliance with data‑governance, security, and privacy standards.
• Document solutions and share knowledge across teams.

Required profile

• Passionate about the customer experience journey.
• Highly motivated, intellectually curious and analytical.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with strong problem‑solving abilities.
• Excellent communication skills.

Required skills

• Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Cache for Redis, Azure Data Factory.
• Proficiency in T‑SQL and PL/pgSQL.
• Performance tuning and query optimisation.
• Infrastructure as Code – Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates.
• CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices for database deployments.
• Azure Monitor, Log Analytics or similar monitoring tools.
• Understanding of data security, encryption and GDPR compliance.