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Database Platform Engineer
Location: London (Hybrid – 3 days per week)
Salary: Up to £150,000 base + bonus + excellent benefits
A leading financial technology firm is looking to appoint an experienced Database Platform Engineer to join its growing Platform Engineering team.
Working across both on-premise infrastructure and AWS, you'll be responsible for designing, building, and operating highly available database platforms that support large-scale engineering workloads. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys automation, performance tuning, and solving complex infrastructure challenges.
The Role
- Build, operate, and scale enterprise database platforms
- Support PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL, CockroachDB, and other relational database technologies
- Develop automation using Python, Terraform, and Ansible
- Optimise database performance, resilience, and scalability
- Design and improve monitoring, alerting, and platform reliability
- Collaborate closely with software and platform engineering teams
- Drive operational excellence across mission-critical database services
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Requirements
- Strong experience with PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL, CockroachDB, or similar database technologies
- Experience operating database platforms at scale
- Strong Linux and Python skills
- Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform, Ansible, or similar
- Kubernetes and container platform experience
- AWS experience
- Strong understanding of automation and platform engineering principles
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Package
- Up to £150,000 base salary
- Annual discretionary bonus
- Hybrid working (3 days per week)
- Private healthcare
- 30 days annual leave
- Excellent pension
- Long-term career progression within a highly technical engineering environment
If you're looking to join an engineering-first organisation where you'll work on large-scale distributed systems and modern database platforms, I'd be happy to discuss the opportunity in more detail.
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