Remote-First Senior Database Platform Engineer

Howden; Greater London; À distance; GBP 90 000 - 125 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Remote-first with occasional travel to

Learning budget

Interesting technical challenges

Automation-focused culture

Documentation discipline

Blameless post-mortems

Operational excellence focus

Platform improvement investment

Résumé du poste

Howden is seeking a Senior Database Platform Engineer to own reliability, performance and security of our database platforms. You will modernise our data estate, support PostgreSQL migration, and partner with Platform, Data and Operations teams to keep critical services resilient and scalable.

You will troubleshoot performance, validate recovery strategies, automate operations and help shape the future of our database estate in a remote-first environment with occasional travel to London.

Qualifications

• 5+ years database engineering or DBA experience supporting production platforms.
• Strong SQL Server expertise including administration, performance tuning and troubleshooting.
• Experience with Azure SQL and cloud-hosted database services.
• High Availability and Disaster Recovery experience including backup, restore and recovery planning.
• Experience managing business-critical production services.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across database, infrastructure and application interactions.
• Monitoring and observability experience within enterprise environments.
• Automation experience using PowerShell or Python.

Responsabilités

• Own the operational health, availability and performance of SQL Server and Azure SQL platforms.
• Provision, configure and maintain production and non-production database environments.
• Plan and execute upgrades, patching and platform lifecycle activities.
• Diagnose and resolve database performance issues across infrastructure, workloads and application interactions.
• Establish and maintain database operational standards and engineering practices.
• Design, implement and validate backup, recovery and disaster recovery capabilities.
• Support evolution towards PostgreSQL and modern cloud-native database services.
• Assist integration with Databricks and analytics services and ensure data movement is optimized.

Connaissances

SQL Server

Azure SQL

High Availability

Backup & DR

Performance Tuning

Automation

Observability

Scripting (PowerShell, Python)

Security & Governance

Incident & Change Mgmt

Outils

PowerShell

Python

Terraform

Bicep

Description du poste

Howden is seeking a Senior Database Platform Engineer to own reliability, performance and security of our database platforms. You will modernise our data estate, support PostgreSQL migration, and partner with Platform, Data and Operations teams to keep critical services resilient and scalable.

You will troubleshoot performance, validate recovery strategies, automate operations and help shape the future of our database estate in a remote-first environment with occasional travel to London.