Database Reliability Engineer - RDS & Zero-Downtime

Starling; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Birthday leave

Pension

Life insurance

Private Medical Insurance

Cycle to Work

EV leasing

Waitrose partner benefits

Job summary

Starling Bank in Southampton is seeking talented data engineers to join our data platform team. You will help modernize and scale our data infrastructure across clouds, ensuring reliability and security.

The role focuses on PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Terraform, and observability, with hybrid working min 1 day in the office. You will collaborate across teams to deliver fast, trustworthy data services for customers.

Qualifications

• Extensive PostgreSQL and Kubernetes experience.
• Proficient with cloud-native data platforms.
• Strong infrastructure as code mindset.
• Experience with multi-cloud deployments.
• Security and observability mindset.

Responsibilities

• Modernize and scale data infrastructure with reliability and low downtime.
• Architect cross-cloud portability for seamless deployment.
• Enhance observability and monitoring across global data fleets.
• Support data streaming and zero-downtime migrations.
• Design robust disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Terraform

CNPG

Distributed Systems

Security & Observability

Java

Code as Infrastructure

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Humio

Java

CNPG

Job description

Starling Bank in Southampton is seeking talented data engineers to join our data platform team. You will help modernize and scale our data infrastructure across clouds, ensuring reliability and security.

The role focuses on PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Terraform, and observability, with hybrid working min 1 day in the office. You will collaborate across teams to deliver fast, trustworthy data services for customers.