Senior Database Platform Engineer: Cloud & Resilience

hyperiongrp; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Howden is seeking a Senior Database Platform Engineer in the United Kingdom to own the reliability, performance, security and evolution of our database platforms. You will work hands-on with SQL Server, Azure SQL and guide the move toward PostgreSQL and cloud-native services.

You will partner with Platform, Data and Operations teams to keep our critical data services resilient, scalable and compliant, while driving automation and improved observability across the estate.

Qualifications

• 5+ years database engineering or DBA experience supporting production platforms.
• Strong SQL Server expertise including administration, performance tuning, troubleshooting and optimisation.
• 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, Python or similar scripting languages.
• Strong understanding of database security, access control and governance.
• Experience working within structured 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, 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 evolution towards PostgreSQL and modern cloud-native database services.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Skills

SQL Server

Azure SQL

High Availability

Disaster Recovery

Automation

PowerShell

Python

Observability

Monitoring

Performance Tuning

Tools

Databricks

PostgreSQL

Job description

Howden is seeking a Senior Database Platform Engineer in the United Kingdom to own the reliability, performance, security and evolution of our database platforms. You will work hands-on with SQL Server, Azure SQL and guide the move toward PostgreSQL and cloud-native services.

You will partner with Platform, Data and Operations teams to keep our critical data services resilient, scalable and compliant, while driving automation and improved observability across the estate.