IT & Software

Database Platform Engineer

G Research

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this role you will design, build and operate mission-critical database platforms underpinning research and business operations. You will partner with research and engineering teams to deliver highly available, scalable data services across on-premises and AWS. You will drive automation, improve performance, and evolve patterns for provisioning, replication and monitoring. This position offers the chance to shape a data-driven platform at scale, contributing to a leading research-focused firm.

Pay / Benefits
  • competitive compensation
  • annual discretionary bonus
  • lunch provided and barista
  • 35 days’ annual leave
  • 9% pension contributions
  • healthcare and life assurance
Responsibilities
  • Build, operate and scale distributed database services across on-premises and AWS
  • Support large-scale deployments of PostgreSQL, MSSQL Server, MySQL and CockroachDB with high availability and performance
  • Design and implement automation for provisioning, upgrades, replication and monitoring using Python, Ansible and Terraform
  • Improve performance tuning, indexing strategies and storage design
  • Collaborate with application and research teams to meet scalability and latency requirements
  • Participate in out-of-hours rota to support critical systems
  • Stay current with industry trends and assess new database technologies
  • Define SLAs, KPIs and monitoring strategies for reliability and security
  • Identify and resolve stability, security and capacity issues across the platform
Key requirements
  • Relational database experience with PostgreSQL, MSSQL Server, MySQL, CockroachDB or similar
  • Understanding of database internals: query execution, concurrency, replication, indexing and partitioning
  • Hands-on experience running databases at scale
  • Strong Linux and Python automation skills
  • Familiarity with Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Dagger, ArgoCD or similar IaC/tools
  • Experience deploying and operating services in containerised or Kubernetes environments
  • Knowledge of AWS data platform services (RDS, Aurora, S3, EC2, EKS)
  • Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Elk or OTel)
  • collaborative
  • problem-solving
  • proactive
  • PostgreSQL
  • MSSQL Server
  • MySQL

Reference: WJ-747_30158873

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