Database Platform Engineer, IaC & Cloud

Springer Nature; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global research publisher is looking for an experienced Database Engineer to enhance their database services and infrastructure. The successful candidate will work in a collaborative environment, leveraging technologies like MongoDB and PostgreSQL, with a focus on maintaining and improving database systems while ensuring high availability. An IaC mindset is essential, and knowledge of cloud infrastructure and automation tools will be beneficial. This role offers a great opportunity for growth and teamwork within a diverse engineering department.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of database architecture, backup and recovery.
• Experience in database clustering and replication mechanisms.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve the database systems in production and development environments.
• Provision, configure, and maintain databases.
• Ensure high availability of databases through clustering and replication.

Skills

Knowledge of MongoDB

Knowledge of PostgreSQL

Experience with Infrastructure as Code

Programming experience with Golang

Experience in operating cloud infrastructure

Experience with automation frameworks

Tools

Terraform

Puppet

Ansible

Job description

A leading global research publisher is looking for an experienced Database Engineer to enhance their database services and infrastructure. The successful candidate will work in a collaborative environment, leveraging technologies like MongoDB and PostgreSQL, with a focus on maintaining and improving database systems while ensuring high availability. An IaC mindset is essential, and knowledge of cloud infrastructure and automation tools will be beneficial. This role offers a great opportunity for growth and teamwork within a diverse engineering department.