Senior Database Platform Engineer – Cloud & Automation

Devopsroles; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Learning budget

Challenging technical problems

Blameless post-mortems

Job summary

Howden is seeking a Senior Database Platform Engineer to own the reliability, performance, security and evolution of our database platforms. You will manage SQL Server and Azure SQL, help modernise towards PostgreSQL and cloud-native services, and partner with Platform, Data, and Operations teams to ensure resilient data services.

This hands-on role emphasises troubleshooting, automation and proactive improvements to observability and platform lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 5+ years database engineering or DBA experience on production platforms.
• Strong SQL Server 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.
• Automation experience using PowerShell, Python or similar scripting languages.

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.
• Design monitoring and observability for database services and incident response.
• Support migration towards PostgreSQL and modern cloud-native data services.

Skills

5+ years database engineering

SQL Server

Azure SQL

HA/DR experience

Automation (PowerShell/Python)

Databricks integration

Security & governance

Tools

Databricks

PowerShell

Python

Terraform

Bicep

Job description

Howden is seeking a Senior Database Platform Engineer to own the reliability, performance, security and evolution of our database platforms. You will manage SQL Server and Azure SQL, help modernise towards PostgreSQL and cloud-native services, and partner with Platform, Data, and Operations teams to ensure resilient data services.

This hands-on role emphasises troubleshooting, automation and proactive improvements to observability and platform lifecycle.