Managing Engineer – Database, Platform

Allstate; Belfast; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a Senior Database Platform Engineer in Belfast to lead a team of DBAs/Platform Engineers, owning the database platform roadmap for MySQL, Redis, and MongoDB (on prem and Atlas). You will drive scalability, availability, and cost improvements while expanding automation and CI/CD pipelines for provisioning, migrations, and config management.

You will collaborate with product, SRE, security, and cloud teams to define SLAs/SLOs, incident response, and risk mitigation, building

Qualifications

• 5+ years total experience in database administration, data platform engineering, or related roles with 3+ years in a people management or technical leadership capacity.
• A minimum of 3+ years of hands-on experience working with MongoDB, including deployment, optimization, and support of production environments.
• Proven experience managing production deployments both on premises and in cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of database internals, replication, sharding, performance tuning, and backup/restore strategies.
• Proven experience designing and building database solutions, including schema design, data modelling, indexing strategies, query optimization, and implementing scalable, highly available data architectures.
• Experience with automation and orchestration tools.
• Familiar with CI/CD concepts and tools used to automate schema migrations and platform changes.
• Strong incident management experience and ability to lead technical incident response.
• Excellent communication skills; ability to partner with vendor, product, SRE, security, and engineering leadership.

Responsibilities

• Manage, mentor, and grow a team of Database Administrators / Platform Engineers (hiring, performance reviews, career development, coaching).
• Own the technical roadmap for database platform services (MySQL, Redis, MongoDB on prem, and MongoDB Atlas), driving improvements in scalability, availability, performance, and cost.
• Lead platform engineering work: installation, configuration, upgrades, automation, backup/restore, patching, capacity planning, and runbooks for production systems.
• Design and implement database architecture and operational patterns (sharding/replication strategies, high availability, disaster recovery, backup retention, and failover).
• Build and improve CI/CD and automation pipelines for database provisioning, schema changes, migrations, and configuration management.
• Partner with product engineering, SRE, security, and cloud teams to define SLAs/SLOs, incident response, root cause analysis, and risk mitigation.
• Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability for database health and performance.
• Drive proactive incident prevention.
• Define and enforce standards, best practices, and governance for database access, security, backups, and compliance.
• Participate in design reviews, capacity planning, and product inception to translate feature requirements into scalable data solutions.
• Lead post-incident reviews and continuous improvement initiatives to reduce mean time to detect and recover.
• Represent the database platform across cross-functional initiatives and influence long-term architecture decisions.

Skills

MongoDB

MySQL

Redis

Data modeling

Schema design

Performance tuning

Automation

CI/CD

Incident management

Leadership

Mentoring

Capacity planning

Tools

CI/CD tools

Automation/orchestration tools

Job description

Responsibilities

• Manage, mentor, and grow a team of Database Administrators / Platform Engineers (hiring, performance reviews, career development, coaching).
• Own the technical roadmap for database platform services (MySQL, Redis, MongoDB on prem, and MongoDB Atlas), driving improvements in scalability, availability, performance, and cost.
• Lead platform engineering work: installation, configuration, upgrades, automation, backup/restore, patching, capacity planning, and runbooks for production systems.
• Design and implement database architecture and operational patterns (sharding/replication strategies, high availability, disaster recovery, backup retention, and failover).
• Build and improve CI/CD and automation pipelines for database provisioning, schema changes, migrations, and configuration management.
• Partner with product engineering, SRE, security, and cloud teams to define SLAs/SLOs, incident response, root cause analysis, and risk mitigation.
• Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability for database health and performance.
• Drive proactive incident prevention.
• Define and enforce standards, best practices, and governance for database access, security, backups, and compliance.
• Participate in design reviews, capacity planning, and product inception to translate feature requirements into scalable data solutions.
• Lead post-incident reviews and continuous improvement initiatives to reduce mean time to detect and recover.
• Represent the database platform across cross-functional initiatives and influence long-term architecture decisions.

Requirements

• 5+ years total experience in database administration, data platform engineering, or related roles with 3+ years in a people management or technical leadership capacity.
• A minimum of 3+ years of hands-on experience working with MongoDB, including deployment, optimization, and support of production environments.
• Proven experience managing production deployments both on premises and in cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of database internals, replication, sharding, performance tuning, and backup/restore strategies.
• Proven experience designing and building database solutions, including schema design, data modelling, indexing strategies, query optimization, and implementing scalable, highly available data architectures.
• Experience with automation and orchestration tools.
• Familiar with CI/CD concepts and tools used to automate schema migrations and platform changes.
• Strong incident management experience and ability to lead technical incident response.
• Excellent communication skills; ability to partner with vendor, product, SRE, security, and engineering leadership.

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• MySQL
• Redis
• MongoDB
• database administration
• database architecture
• performance tuning
• schema design
• data modeling
• backup/restore strategies
• automation

Soft Skills

• mentoring
• technical leadership
• incident management
• communication
• collaboration
• coaching
• problem-solving
• continuous improvement
• influencing
• capacity planning