Remote-First Senior Database Platform Engineer

hyperiongrp

Greater London

Remote

GBP 90,000 - 120,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

Howden is seeking a Senior Database Platform Engineer to own the reliability, performance, security and evolution of our database platforms. You will guide the transition towards PostgreSQL, cloud-native services and lakehouse architectures, while hands-on troubleshooting SQL Server and Azure SQL estate.

You will collaborate with Platform, Data and Operations teams to ensure resilient, scalable data services and drive automation to reduce toil.

Qualifications

5+ years database engineering or DBA experience
Strong SQL Server expertise including administration, performance tuning, 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
Automation experience using PowerShell, Python or similar scripting languages
Strong understanding of database security, access control and governance
Experience with incident, problem and change management processes

Responsibilities

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
Manage platform capacity, utilisation and performance forecasting
Ensure critical database platforms remain secure, resilient and operationally supportable
Design, implement and validate backup, recovery and disaster recovery capabilities
Own restore testing and recovery readiness across critical platforms
Support high availability solutions and service resilience initiatives
Implement proactive monitoring, alerting and observability for database services
Participate in incident response, problem management and post-incident reviews
Drive continual improvement through automation, root cause analysis and operational learning
Reduce operational toil through self-healing and automation where practical
Support integration between database platforms, Databricks and analytics services
Work alongside Data Engineers to optimise data movement and workload performance
Contribute database expertise to modern data platform initiatives
Help ensure database services can support emerging analytics and AI workloads
Define and improve database deployment, configuration and operational standards
Contribute to migration and modernisation initiatives across legacy database platforms
Help reduce technical debt through platform simplification and standardisation
Evaluate new database technologies and operating models where they create business value
Design, implement and maintain role-based access controls and database security standards
Support audit, compliance and governance activities
Manage database access processes and periodic reviews
Ensure database services align with organisational security and operational policies
Produce operational evidence and documentation where required for regulatory and audit purposes