DATABASE PLATFORM ENGINEER - LONDON (HYBRID WORKING) - £70 - £80K + BENEFITS
2 days ago
London
DATABASE PLATFORM ENGINEER - LONDON (HYBRID WORKING) - £70 - £80K + BENEFITS As a Platform Engineer focused on Databases, your mission is to design, automate, and operate reliable, scalable, and developer-friendly database services. You'll play a central role in embedding database capabilities into our Internal Developer Platform (IDP), enabling 500+ developers to consume data services seamlessly, securely, and with minimal friction. This is both a hands-on and strategic role: you will roll up your sleeves to build and automate Database deployments, while at the same time shaping how data services are delivered as part of a self-service platform. By combining database expertise with strong automation and software engineering skills, you will ensure our platform accelerates developer productivity while maintaining enterprise-grade reliability and compliance. If you are passionate about operating databases the DevOps way, and thrive at the intersection of data platforms, automation, and developer enablement, this role is for you. Responsibilities Database platform ownership • Design, implement, and maintain production-ready PostgreSQL (and other databases)., • Build and manage automation pipelines (Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Operators) for provisioning, upgrading, and managing database clusters., • Embed database services into the IDP so they can be consumed via self-service portals, APIs, or GitOps workflows., • Define and maintain golden paths for database provisioning and life cycle management., • Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for database workloads (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.)., • Establish SLOs and performance benchmarks to ensure system reliability., • Partner with engineering teams to understand requirements and evolve database offerings., • Provide clear documentation, onboarding material, and training to enable developers to use data services independently., • Database Expertise: hands-on experience with PostgreSQL in production (administration, tuning, HA/DR, migrations)., • Kubernetes Expertise: Strong knowledge of Kubernetes fundamentals and practical experience running stateful workloads, ideally using Operators., • Automation Skills: Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation tools (Terraform, Ansible, Helm, or similar)., • Software Development Mindset: Experience with Python, Go, or similar languages to build automation, APIs, and integrations., • Observability Experience: Familiarity with monitoring/alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Datadog., • Collaboration and Communication: Strong ability to collaborate across engineering teams and communicate effectively in English.