Database Platform Engineer

Overview

In this role you will design, build and operate mission-critical database platforms underpinning research and business operations. You will partner with research and engineering teams to deliver highly available, scalable data services across on-premises and AWS. You will drive automation, improve performance, and evolve patterns for provisioning, replication and monitoring. This position offers the chance to shape a data-driven platform at scale, contributing to a leading research-focused firm.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive compensation
• annual discretionary bonus
• lunch provided and barista
• 35 days’ annual leave
• 9% pension contributions
• healthcare and life assurance

Responsibilities

• Build, operate and scale distributed database services across on-premises and AWS
• Support large-scale deployments of PostgreSQL, MSSQL Server, MySQL and CockroachDB with high availability and performance
• Design and implement automation for provisioning, upgrades, replication and monitoring using Python, Ansible and Terraform
• Improve performance tuning, indexing strategies and storage design
• Collaborate with application and research teams to meet scalability and latency requirements
• Participate in out-of-hours rota to support critical systems
• Stay current with industry trends and assess new database technologies
• Define SLAs, KPIs and monitoring strategies for reliability and security
• Identify and resolve stability, security and capacity issues across the platform

Key requirements

• Relational database experience with PostgreSQL, MSSQL Server, MySQL, CockroachDB or similar
• Understanding of database internals: query execution, concurrency, replication, indexing and partitioning
• Hands-on experience running databases at scale
• Strong Linux and Python automation skills
• Familiarity with Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Dagger, ArgoCD or similar IaC/tools
• Experience deploying and operating services in containerised or Kubernetes environments
• Knowledge of AWS data platform services (RDS, Aurora, S3, EC2, EKS)
• Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Elk or OTel)

• collaborative
• problem-solving
• proactive
• PostgreSQL
• MSSQL Server
• MySQL

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