Database Platform Engineer

As a DBA in Zopa's Platform Tribe, you ensure mission-critical PostgreSQL and AWS database services run with strong operational discipline. You’ll automate repetitive DBA work through infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD, while improving backup, restore, monitoring, and replication. You’ll help engineers self-serve database capabilities with clear guardrails and contribute to migrating from SQL Server to PostgreSQL. This hybrid, collaborative role offers impact at scale within a mission-driven fintech environment.

• hybrid work model
• London office 2-3 days a week
• option to work from abroad up to 120 days a year

• Support mission-critical PostgreSQL and AWS database services with disciplined operations
• Automate repeatable DBA tasks using infrastructure-as-code and deployment pipelines
• Improve backup, restore, monitoring, and replication practices
• Collaborate with Cloud Infrastructure on AWS, Terraform, and platform patterns
• Enable engineers to self-serve database capabilities safely with guardrails
• Contribute to the transition from Microsoft SQL Server to PostgreSQL
• Participate in on-call rotations to minimize toil and incidents

• Practical AWS experience supporting mission-critical database services
• Strong PostgreSQL knowledge with backup/restore expertise
• Terraform and CI/CD experience focused on automation
• Experience on-call support for production services
• Database-engineering mindset with practical platform automation
• Ability to reason about reliability, resilience, security and operability
• Collaborative working style with platform engineers

• collaborative
• problem-solving
• stakeholder engagement
• AWS
• PostgreSQL
• backup/restore