Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. OnBoard is a leading board management software company that helps organizations function at a higher level. They are seeking a Cloud Data Engineer to design and operate data systems that integrate SQL and modern AI search technologies, ensuring reliability and performance in LLM-powered applications.
Responsibilities
• Design, deploy, and operate Microsoft SQL Server workloads across Azure IaaS (VM) and PaaS (Azure SQL DB / SQL Managed Instance).
• Build, scale, and tune AI Search and ElasticSearch clusters, pipelines, and relevance models for both keyword and semantic search.
• Collaborate with developers and ML teams to build retrieval pipelines for LLM applications, including vector indexing, prompt metadata enrichment, and embeddings.
• Integrate observability into all layers of the data/search stack.
• Analyze and optimize SQL queries and indexing strategies using Query Store, DMVs, and execution plans.
• Secure data access using encryption (TDE, Always Encrypted), private endpoints, and RBAC.
• Automate recurring operations using PowerShell/Azure DevOps Pipelines, including job scheduling, alerting, index maintenance and schema validation.
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) for SQL and search platforms using Bicep.
• Drive incident resolution and root cause analysis for issues across SQL, search, and LLM pipelines.
• Maintain technical documentation and operational runbooks for the combined SQL + Search + AI infrastructure.
Skills
• 3–5 years of experience managing Microsoft SQL Server in production, both IaaS and PaaS.
• Strong experience with full-text and semantic search using Azure Cognitive Search and/or ElasticSearch.
• Experience building or maintaining RAG/LLM architectures, including vector stores, embedding generation, and retrieval APIs.
• Proficiency in tuning and debugging database performance (wait stats, execution plans, indexing).
• Hands-on experience with observability platforms and standards (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, APM tools, etc.).
• Automation scripting with PowerShell or Python.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code (Bicep, Terraform, ARM templates).
• Familiarity with compliance, RBAC, and secure data practices in cloud environments.
• Experience instrumenting and debugging LLM inference chains or vector database retrieval quality
Benefits
• Company provided equipment (laptop, software, etc.)
• Employment with a growing, casual, fun, philanthropic minded company
• Employer paid extended health benefits, including health spending account (CAN based employees)
• Comprehensive, high-quality medical/prescription drug plan options, as well as dental and vision plan offerings.
• An employer contribution to your Health Savings Account (HSA) if you participate in a High Deductible Healthcare Plan.
• Medical Flexible Spending Accounts available.
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts available.
• Basic life insurance in the amount of $50,000 or 1 X’s your salary (whichever is higher).
• Short and long-term disability and Accidental Death and Dismemberment benefits at no cost to you.
• 401K Retirement Savings Plan with automatic enrollment at the first of the month following 60 days of employment at 5% to help you secure your financial freedom. We offer a generous company match that starts on the first of the month following 60 days of employment. The company match is dollar for dollar on the first 3% of your pay that you contribute and $0.50 on the dollar on the next 2%, for a total match of 4%.
• Paid Time Off (PTO)/Holiday
Company Overview
• OnBoard is a secure board management platform that helps organizations prepare, conduct, and analyze board meetings. It was founded in 2003, and is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.onboardmeetings.com.
Company H1B Sponsorship
• OnBoard has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2024, 1 in 2023, 1 in 2022, 3 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.