PostgreSQL Platform Engineer - Cloud & Automation (Hybrid)

United States Digital Space LLC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

London office 2-3 days a week

Job summary

The DBA team sits within the company’s Platform Tribe, supporting mission-critical PostgreSQL and AWS database services. This is not a traditional, server-only DBA role; we automate database operations and strengthen cloud and infrastructure-as-code practices for safer engineer access.

The team is moving from Microsoft SQL Server towards PostgreSQL, with a focus on reliability and operational excellence. London office 2-3 days a week, hybrid work, and flexible arrangements are available.

Qualifications

• Practical AWS experience with mission-critical databases.
• Strong PostgreSQL knowledge including backup/restore.
• Terraform and CI/CD experience, focused on automation.
• Experience participating in on-call support for production services.
• Database-engineering mindset with platform automation.
• Ability to reason about reliability, resilience, security and operability.
• Collaborative working style 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 and with clear guardrails.
• Contribute to the move away from Microsoft SQL Server towards PostgreSQL.
• Join the shared on-call rota and continually reduce avoidable alerting and toil.

Skills

AWS

PostgreSQL

Terraform

CI/CD

On-call support

Automation

Reliability

Tools

Redgate Monitor

Job description

The DBA team sits within the company’s Platform Tribe, supporting mission-critical PostgreSQL and AWS database services. This is not a traditional, server-only DBA role; we automate database operations and strengthen cloud and infrastructure-as-code practices for safer engineer access.

The team is moving from Microsoft SQL Server towards PostgreSQL, with a focus on reliability and operational excellence. London office 2-3 days a week, hybrid work, and flexible arrangements are available.