# Database Platform Engineer

**Company**: Zopa
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Employee - Permanent
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Database Platform Engineer to join our team at Zopa. You will be responsible for supporting mission-critical PostgreSQL and AWS database services, automating repeatable DBA work, and improving backup, restore, monitoring, and replication practices.

Responsibilities:

- Support mission-critical PostgreSQL and AWS database services with strong operational discipline.

- Automate repeatable DBA work using infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and deployment pipelines.

- Improve backup, restore, monitoring, and replication practices.

- Partner with Cloud Infrastructure colleagues on AWS, Terraform, and platform patterns.

- Help engineers self-serve database capabilities safely and with clear guardrails.

- Contribute to the move away from Microsoft SQL Server towards PostgreSQL.

- Join the shared on-call rota and continually reduce avoidable alerting and toil.

Requirements:

- Practical AWS experience supporting mission-critical database services.

- Strong PostgreSQL knowledge and experience with backup and restore.

- Terraform and CI/CD experience, with a focus on automation.

- Experience participating in on-call support for production services.

- A database-engineering mindset combined with practical platform automation.

- Ability to reason about reliability, resilience, security, and operability.

- Collaborative working style and confidence partnering with platform engineers.

Nice to Have:

- AWS certification.

- Experience supporting MySQL or SQL Server instances.

- Database automation and PostgreSQL replication experience.

- Monitoring experience with Redgate Monitor, Honeycomb, or comparable tools.

- Pragmatic use of AI in day-to-day engineering work.

## Skills

### Required
- AWS
- PostgreSQL
- Terraform
- CI/CD
- database engineering
- platform automation

### Nice to have
- AWS certification
- MySQL
- SQL Server
- PostgreSQL replication
- Redgate Monitor
- Honeycomb
- AI

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