Database Platform Engineer

London. Posted a month ago

The role

You will support PostgreSQL and AWS database services for Zopa's Platform Tribe. The role automates database operations with infrastructure-as-code, and it includes helping move the team from Microsoft SQL Server to PostgreSQL.

What you will do

Support mission-critical PostgreSQL and AWS database services
Automate repeatable DBA work with 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 with clear guardrails
Contribute to the move from Microsoft SQL Server to PostgreSQL
Join the shared on-call rota and reduce avoidable alerting and toil

Required qualifications

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

Benefits

Flexible ways of working
Option to work from abroad for up to 120 days a year, subject to right to work
Support for work and home life from day one

Before you apply

Working from abroad requires the right to work in the country of choice
Behavioural and competency-based interviews: do not use AI
Technical interviews: AI use depends on the stage; your Talent Partner will say what is expected

About the company

Zopa started in 2005 as a peer-to-peer lending company and launched Zopa Bank in 2020. It describes itself as a bank that aims to redefine what it feels like to work in finance.