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Senior SQL & Hosted Services Engineer
BloombergNew York City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 29 Jul 2026
💰 $225,000/yr($130,000/yr – $225,000/yr)
About the role
Senior SQL & Hosted Services Engineer
Location
New York
Business Area
Engineering and CTO
Ref #
10052871
Description & Requirements
Description
The Corporate Technology Group designs, deploys and supports Bloomberg's platforms and systems used by more than 21,000 employees across 170+ offices worldwide. The team supports critical infrastructure services that enable internal applications, data platforms, engineering workflows, and enterprise operations across Bloomberg.
What's the Role?
As a Senior SQL & Hosted Services Engineer, you'll help maintain and continuously improve Bloomberg's globally distributed SQL Databases and application hosting platforms. Working as part of a global engineering team, you’ll drive reliability, automation, operational excellence, and service availability across SQL-backed workloads and the compute, storage, and virtualization platforms they depend on.
We'll trust you to
- Ensure the availability, reliability, and operational readiness of compute, storage, virtualization, SQL and supporting platform services.
- Identify and deliver improvements to reliability, simplify processes, reduce manual effort and increase automation across supported platforms
- Help to define and implement operational standards, metrics, documentation and playbooks that improve consistency and supportability.
- Contribute to platform lifecycle improvements, helping engineer services that are easy to operate, monitor, and scale.
- Embrace new technologies, operational practices, and ways of working that improve service delivery and support our long-term platform strategy.
- Improve monitoring, alerting, telemetry, and service health reporting to proactively identify risk and reduce service impact.
You'll need to have
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, or equivalent systems and platform experience.
- 4+ years of experience designing, building and supporting Microsoft SQL Server infrastructure and Windows failover clustering technology to deliver high availability.
- Good working knowledge of enterprise-scale virtualization platforms, multiple Windows Operating System environments, SAN and NAS storage systems and TCP/IP networking.
- Solid understanding of Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, DFS, Sites and Services, SPNs, service accounts, and related Windows Server platform services.
- Experience supporting enterprise backup and disaster recovery processes.
- Working knowledge of PowerShell, Python, SQL/T-SQL, or similar automation and scripting technologies.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, documentation, and communication skills with a focus on operational excellence and continuous improvement.
- Ability to quickly learn new technologies and work collaboratively across multiple engineering disciplines.
We'd love to see
- Exposure to migrating services to private or hybrid cloud hosting platforms
- System owner level Linux administration experience.
- Experience with enterprise server infrastructure management platforms such as HPE Oneview
- Experience creating runbooks, playbooks, operational readiness reviews, and ITSM knowledge articles.
- Working knowledge of CI/CD, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code practices and tools.
- Experience usi
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