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My client are looking for someone to take ownership of our database platforms across a modern, cloud based environment. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, platform and security, with a strong focus on performance, reliability and scalability. You’ll be working closely with application and platform teams to ensure our data layer is robust, efficient and built to scale. This is a hands on position for someone who enjoys solving complex performance challenges and building well engineered, reliable systems.
Job Responsibility:
Own the performance and stability of database platforms across production environments
Drive improvements in query performance, indexing strategies and overall database efficiency
Work with engineering teams on schema design and data modelling aligned to real workloads
Design and maintain highly available systems, including replication, failover and backup strategies
Define and test disaster recovery processes to ensure resilience and recovery objectives are met
Establish and track SLIs and SLOs for database performance, availability and reliability
Build out monitoring, alerting and observability for database health and performance
Contribute to incident response and lead root cause analysis when issues arise
Apply security best practices across database environments, including access control and encryption
Automate database provisioning and operations using Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines
Standardise configurations and practices to ensure consistency across environments
Requirements:
Strong hands-on experience with SQL and/or NoSQL databases in production environments
Solid understanding of performance tuning, query optimisation, indexing and data modelling
Experience defining and working with SLIs/SLOs for reliability and performance
Experience working with cloud-based database services
Good knowledge of high availability, replication and disaster recovery approaches
Experience with monitoring, alerting and operational metrics for data platforms
Comfortable working with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar) and CI/CD pipelines
Familiarity with security controls such as IAM, encryption and secrets management
Strong Linux fundamentals and scripting experience
Ability to troubleshoot complex issues and work effectively under pressure