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.