Hybrid PostgreSQL & Cloud Platform Engineer

Zopa Bank; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

London office 2-3 days/week

Work abroad up to 120 days/year

Job summary

Zopa Bank is seeking a seasoned Database Engineer to join the DBA team within our Platform Tribe. You’ll oversee mission-critical PostgreSQL and AWS database services, automate tasks, and help move our data stack from Microsoft SQL Server to PostgreSQL.

You’ll champion reliability, security and operability while partnering with platform engineers to improve automation, backups, monitoring and on-call practices across the engineering ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Experience in AWS-backed mission-critical database services.
• Strong PostgreSQL knowledge with backup/restore.
• Terraform and CI/CD automation skills.
• Experience with on-call support for production services.
• Database-engineering mindset focused on reliability and operability.
• Collaborative with platform engineers.

Responsibilities

• 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 with clear guardrails.
• Contribute to the move away from Microsoft SQL Server towards PostgreSQL.
• Join the shared on-call rota and reduce avoidable alerting and toil.

Skills

AWS

PostgreSQL

Terraform

CI/CD

On-call support

Automation mindset

Tools

Redgate Monitor

Honeycomb

Job description

Zopa Bank is seeking a seasoned Database Engineer to join the DBA team within our Platform Tribe. You’ll oversee mission-critical PostgreSQL and AWS database services, automate tasks, and help move our data stack from Microsoft SQL Server to PostgreSQL.

You’ll champion reliability, security and operability while partnering with platform engineers to improve automation, backups, monitoring and on-call practices across the engineering ecosystem.