Database Reliability Engineer | Postgres, Kubernetes & Cloud

Starling Bank Limited; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday plus public holidays

Paid volunteering time

Private medical insurance

Annual leave increases with service

Life insurance

Partner discounts

Family-friendly policies

Salary sacrifice pension scheme

Perkbox membership

Job summary

A UK bank is seeking skilled data professionals to join its dynamic team in Southampton. The role emphasizes expertise in PostgreSQL and Kubernetes amidst a fast-moving environment. Responsibilities include modernizing data fleets, architecting portability, and ensuring business continuity through effective data management strategies. Candidates should have a security mindset and a strong knowledge in distributed systems. The position offers hybrid working and competitive benefits including extensive holiday and private medical insurance.

Qualifications

• Expertise in PostgreSQL and Kubernetes for stateful workloads management.
• Ability to provision infrastructure through code instead of manually.
• Strong understanding of multi-tenant and multi-cloud systems.

Responsibilities

• Modernize and scale the RDS fleet while ensuring reliability.
• Architect cross-cloud portability for database layer.
• Evolve observability and monitoring for performance.
• Support replication and mobility for data.
• Fortify business continuity with disaster recovery designs.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Systems thinking

Distributed Systems

Security mindset

Java

Tools

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Humio

Job description

A UK bank is seeking skilled data professionals to join its dynamic team in Southampton. The role emphasizes expertise in PostgreSQL and Kubernetes amidst a fast-moving environment. Responsibilities include modernizing data fleets, architecting portability, and ensuring business continuity through effective data management strategies. Candidates should have a security mindset and a strong knowledge in distributed systems. The position offers hybrid working and competitive benefits including extensive holiday and private medical insurance.