Database Administrator

Verda; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 51,000 - 86,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cash + equity compensation

Fringe benefits

Job summary

Verda is building a European cloud platform and seeks an experienced Database Administrator to own the stateful data layer, including Postgres and ClickHouse clusters. You’ll design, deploy, and operate production-grade storage; implement replication, backups, and zero-downtime migrations; and collaborate with engineering teams to optimize performance while maintaining strong reliability.

You’ll work in a hybrid Helsinki office with a focus on scalable, secure data systems and modern automation

Qualifications

• 5+ years administering production relational databases, with deep hands-on Postgres expertise.
• Strong experience with Postgres replication, high availability, failover, backup and point-in-time recovery.
• Strong experience with analytical databases; ClickHouse in production is a strong plus, and candidates who can demonstrate rapid mastery of complex new technologies are encouraged to apply.
• Track record of database performance tuning - query plans, indexing, schema design, vacuum/merge behavior, resource sizing.
• Experience with on-call rotations and production incident management on the data tier.
• Strong Linux administration and debugging skills.
• Experience with infrastructure automation (Ansible), GitOps, and CI/CD as applied to stateful systems.
• Comfortable designing and executing zero/low-downtime schema changes and major-version upgrades.
• Working knowledge of database observability - metrics, slow-query analysis, and capacity planning (Prometheus, Grafana, or similar).
• Scripting or programming experience (Python, Bash, Go, or similar).
• Strong collaboration and communication skills

Responsibilities

• Own the lifecycle of our stateful data storages - design, deploy, operate, upgrade, and decommission Postgres and ClickHouse clusters in production.
• Run replication, high-availability, and failover for Postgres and ClickHouse (replicated tables, keeper, sharding).
• Design and continuously verify backup and point-in-time recovery procedures across all managed engines, and rehearse restores on a regular cadence.
• Maintain monitoring, alerting, and capacity planning for database workloads, and drive query- and schema-level performance work with the application teams.
• Participate in on-call rotations, lead incident response for data-tier outages, and run blameless post-mortems.
• Plan and execute schema changes, version upgrades, and data migrations with zero or minimal downtime.
• Operate the surrounding key-value and NoSQL stores (Redis-style caches, Mongo, etc.) the platform depends on.
• Develop automation for provisioning, configuration, and routine operations using Ansible, GitOps, and CI/CD workflows.
• Contribute to data-tier standards, runbooks, and operational best practices

Skills

PostgreSQL

Linux

DB replication

High availability

Backup & PITR

SQL tuning

Python/Bash

GitOps

CI/CD

Communication

Tools

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

MongoDB

Kubernetes

PgBouncer

Pgpool

Debezium

Job description

Imagine a future where everyone has instant, low-cost access to powerful computing resources. We're building a fully featured European cloud computing platform-with everything one needs to run, scale, and deploy applications and workloads. In addition, our infrastructure runs on 100% renewable energy.

We're ambitious, curious, and gutsy doers. We practice a low hierarchy across the company and high morale in our teams. We've already achieved a lot, yet we're only getting started. Now it's your chance to join the ride. We offer more than just the job - we offer a career-defining opportunity to be part of building something big!

Join Verda while it's still being built - not once it's finished.

Behind every product we ship sits a database that has to be correct, durable, and fast. As our Database Administrator, you'll own the stateful layer of our platform end-to-end: the Postgres and ClickHouse clusters that hold our operational and analytical data, and the supporting key-value and document stores that surround them. You'll be the person engineering teams trust when they need a new cluster designed, an outage diagnosed, or a migration run without losing a byte.

Why Verda

• Cash + equity compensation along with various fringe benefits.
• Profitable operations with rapid, sustained growth.
• 31 nationalities, with 6 different ones on the management team.
• An opportunity to make a clear impact and work alongside world-class engineers, researchers, and partners across the global AI ecosystem.

Practicalities

• Location: Helsinki
• Hybrid mode: This role requires presence in our Helsinki office 3 days per week. Don't worry - you won't be alone or hangry there. (We keep a stocked fridge)
• Employment type: Full-time and permanent

Your responsibilities

• Own the lifecycle of our stateful data storages - design, deploy, operate, upgrade, and decommission Postgres and ClickHouse clusters in production
• Run replication, high-availability, and failover for Postgres and ClickHouse (replicated tables, keeper, sharding)
• Design and continuously verify backup and point-in-time recovery procedures across all managed engines, and rehearse restores on a regular cadence
• Maintain monitoring, alerting, and capacity planning for database workloads, and drive query- and schema-level performance work with the application teams
• Participate in on-call rotations, lead incident response for data-tier outages, and run blameless post-mortems
• Plan and execute schema changes, version upgrades, and data migrations with zero or minimal downtime
• Operate the surrounding key-value and NoSQL stores (Redis-style caches, Mongo, etc.) the platform depends on
• Develop automation for provisioning, configuration, and routine operations using Ansible, GitOps, and CI/CD workflows
• Contribute to data-tier standards, runbooks, and operational best practices

Your key competencies

• 5+ years administering production relational databases, with deep hands-on Postgres expertise
• Strong experience with Postgres replication, high availability, failover, backup and point-in-time recovery
• Strong experience with analytical databases; ClickHouse in production is a strong plus, and candidates who can demonstrate rapid mastery of complex new technologies are encouraged to apply.
• Track record of database performance tuning - query plans, indexing, schema design, vacuum/merge behavior, resource sizing
• Experience with on-call rotations and production incident management on the data tier
• Strong Linux administration and debugging skills
• Experience with infrastructure automation (Ansible), GitOps, and CI/CD as applied to stateful systems
• Comfortable designing and executing zero/low-downtime schema changes and major-version upgrades
• Working knowledge of database observability - metrics, slow-query analysis, and capacity planning (Prometheus, Grafana, or similar)
• Scripting or programming experience (Python, Bash, Go, or similar)
• Strong collaboration and communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience operating key-value storages (Redis, Valkey, etcd, or similar) in production
• Experience operating NoSQL document databases such as MongoDB
• Familiarity with running stateful workloads on Kubernetes (operators, persistent volumes, storage classes)
• Familiarity with connection poolers (PgBouncer, Pgpool) and proxy layers
• Experience with logical replication and cross-cluster data movement (Debezium, CDC pipelines)
• Knowledge of distributed systems, storage, and high-availability environments
• Exposure to data security and compliance practices (encryption at rest/in transit, access controls, audit logging)
• Comfortable using AI-powered tooling to improve engineering workflows.

What's next

We're building fast and this role needs the right person behind it. There's no artificial deadline, but when we find who we're looking for, we move.