DevOps Engineer

Arcus Search; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcus Search is working with a highly technical organisation in London seeking a Database Platform Engineer to help build and evolve the database services used across a large engineering environment. You’ll run and scale database platforms across on-prem and cloud, work with PostgreSQL, SQL Server and MySQL, and automate provisioning, upgrades, replication, monitoring and other operational processes.

This role blends database engineering with DevOps and platform engineering, offering exposure

Qualifications

• Experience operating databases at scale and automating improvements.
• DevOps, SRE or Platform Engineering background preferred.
• Some Python scripting for automation is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Run and scale database platforms across on-prem and cloud environments.
• Automate provisioning, upgrades, replication, monitoring and other operational processes.
• Improve reliability, performance, capacity and resilience across database services.
• Work with Linux, Python, Terraform, Ansible and modern infrastructure tooling.
• Support services running across AWS, containers and Kubernetes.
• Troubleshoot database performance, replication, indexing and query issues.

Skills

DevOps

Platform engineering

SRE

Database engineering

Python scripting

Linux

Automation

AWS

Kubernetes

Observability

Tools

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

MySQL

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Containers

Job description

I’m working with a highly technical organisation in London that is looking for a Database Platform Engineer to help build and evolve the database services used across a large engineering environment.

What you’ll be working on:

• Running and scaling database platforms across on-prem and cloud environments
• Working with PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL and other modern database technologies
• Automating provisioning, upgrades, replication, monitoring and other operational processes
• Improving reliability, performance, capacity and resilience across critical database services
• Working with Linux, Python, Terraform, Ansible and modern infrastructure tooling
• Supporting services running across AWS, containers and Kubernetes
• Troubleshooting database performance, replication, indexing and query issues

What makes the opportunity interesting:

• You’ll be working on database services used across a large and technically demanding engineering environment
• The role combines database engineering with DevOps, SRE and platform engineering rather than traditional DBA work
• They’re particularly interested in people who have operated databases at scale and understand how to automate and improve them
• Strong DevOps or Platform backgrounds with solid database experience would be very relevant
• You don’t need to be a software developer, but some Python or scripting experience for automation is important
• You’ll get exposure across multiple database technologies, cloud, Kubernetes, observability and infrastructure automation

This would suit someone from a DevOps, SRE or Platform Engineering background who has spent a lot of time working with databases and wants to make that the main focus of their role.