Database Platform Engineer

Zopa; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

London office 2–3 days per week

Work from abroad up to 120 days/year

Job summary

Zopa is seeking a skilled Database Engineer to manage mission-critical PostgreSQL and AWS services. You will automate DBA tasks, improve backups and monitoring, and collaborate with Cloud Infrastructure to standardise platforms.

You will help shift from SQL Server to PostgreSQL and participate in a supportive on-call culture. Hybrid role in London with 2-3 days at the office, plus the option to work abroad up to 120 days per year.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Support mission-critical PostgreSQL and AWS database services with strong operational discipline.
• Automate repeatable DBA work using infrastructure-as-code and deployment pipelines.
• Improve backup, restore, monitoring and replication practices.
• Partner with Cloud Infrastructure on AWS, Terraform and platform patterns.
• Help engineers self-serve database capabilities safely with guardrails.
• Contribute to moving from SQL Server to PostgreSQL.
• Join the on-call rota and reduce alerting and toil.

Skills

PostgreSQL

AWS

Automation

CI/CD

On-call

Terraform

Reliability

Security

Tools

Terraform

Redgate Monitor

Honeycomb

Job description

Our Story

Hello there. We’re Zopa.

We started our journey back in 2005, building the first ever peer-to-peer lending company. Fast forward to 2020 and we launched Zopa Bank. A bank that listens to what our customers don’t like about finance and does the opposite. We’re redefining what it feels like to work in finance. Our vision for a new era of banking puts people front and centre — we’ve built a business that empowers everyone to aim high, every day, to move finance forward. Find out more about our fantastic offerings at Zopa.com!

We’re incredibly proud of our achievements and none of it would be possible without the amazing team here. It’s not just industry awards we’re winning, we’ve also been named in the top three UK’s Most Loved Workplaces.

If you embrace unconventional challenges, are unafraid to think differently and are driven to make an outsized impact, you’ll thrive here at Zopa, so join us, and make it count.Want to see us in action? Follow us on Instagram @zopalife

The Team

The DBA team sits within Zopa’s Platform Tribe, alongside Cloud Infrastructure and DevX. We support the databases and data stores behind critical customer and engineering services, while evolving how those services are delivered. This is not a traditional, server-only DBA role. We are automating database operations, strengthening cloud and infrastructure-as-code practices, and giving engineering teams clearer, safer ways to use database services. The team is also progressing a major transition from Microsoft SQL Server towards PostgreSQL, creating meaningful technical change for someone who enjoys both depth and improvement.

A day in the life:

• Support mission-critical PostgreSQL and AWS database services with strong operational discipline.

• Automate repeatable DBA work using 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 and with clear guardrails.

• Contribute to the move away from Microsoft SQL Server towards PostgreSQL.

• Join the shared on-call rota and continually reduce avoidable alerting and toil.

About you:

• 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.

Added bonus:

• 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.

#LI-AP1

At Zopa we value flexible ways of working.

We value face-to-face collaboration and a good work-life balance. This hybrid role requires you to come to our London office 2-3 days a week.

You'll also have the option of working from abroad for up to 120 days a year!* But no matter where you are, we’ll make sure you’ve got everything you need to thrive, both in your work and home life, from day one.

*Subject to having the right to work in the country of choice

Diversity Statement

Zopa is proud to offer a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds leads to better products for our customers and a unique company culture for our people. We are made up of nearly 50 nationalities, have a DE&I forum made up of Zopians wanting to make a difference and we are proud of our culture where everyone can bring their full self to work. Our approach to DE&I is reflected in our hiring process so please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments.

Our approach to AI in interviews

At Zopa, AI isn't something we're testing out — it's part of how we work every day. As a proud partner ofJobs 2030,we'recommitted to building AI fluency across our workforce, and we expectZopiansto use AI as part of how they do their jobs.

Because of that, we want to be transparent about how we think about AI use during our hiring process.

Behavioural and competency-based interviews

: pleasedon'tuse AI.These conversations are designed to understandyou— your experiences, your judgment, and howyou'veapproached real situations. An AI-generated answercan'ttell us that. What it can do is get in the way of us finding out whetherwe'rethe right fit for each other.

Technical interviews:

it depends on the role.Some technical stages actively welcome AI use,othersdon't. Your Talent Partner will let you knowwhat'sexpected at each stage.Where AI is part of the assessment,we'llbe interested not just in the outcome, but in how you used it – the tools you chose, your reasoning, and the decisions you made along the way.

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