SC-Cleared Senior DBA: AWS Aurora & PostgreSQL, Remote-First

Amber Labs; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Private medical insurance

Remote-first working

Personal training budget

Perkbox membership

EV scheme

Team socials

Pension contributions

Referral scheme

Job summary

Amber Labs in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced Senior Database Administrator (DBA) to lead architecture, design and operations for enterprise databases on AWS.

You will work with architects, cloud engineers and developers to deliver highly available, secure database solutions, with emphasis on AWS Aurora, Amazon RDS and PostgreSQL, including backup, failover and DR processes.

Qualifications

• Active SC Clearance Essential.
• Experience with AWS Aurora, Amazon RDS and PostgreSQL.
• Experience leading enterprise database platforms in AWS environments.
• Strong SQL development, performance tuning and data modelling expertise.
• Experience implementing backup, recovery, replication and DR solutions.
• Familiarity with IAM, CloudWatch, VPC and Secrets Manager in AWS.
• Experience delivering database solutions in regulated or public sector environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design and implementation of enterprise database platforms on AWS.
• Design scalable database schemas, data models and indexing strategies.
• Define architecture aligned with security, resilience and performance best practice.
• Provide technical leadership across complex database solutions and cloud platform design.
• Ensure databases are highly available, secure and operationally robust.

Skills

AWS Aurora

Amazon RDS

PostgreSQL

SQL development

Performance tuning

Disaster recovery

Security hardening

Leadership

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Amber Labs in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced Senior Database Administrator (DBA) to lead architecture, design and operations for enterprise databases on AWS.

You will work with architects, cloud engineers and developers to deliver highly available, secure database solutions, with emphasis on AWS Aurora, Amazon RDS and PostgreSQL, including backup, failover and DR processes.