Senior Database Platform Engineer – Remote-First Reliability

TigerRisk Partners, LLC.; Greater London; Remote; GBP 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Learning budget

Hybrid travel to London

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, and help modernise toward PostgreSQL, cloud-native services and lakehouse architectures.

This is a hands-on role working with Platform, Data and Operations teams to ensure resilient, scalable data services. You will implement monitoring, automation and disaster recovery in a remote-first environment with London

Qualifications

• 5+ years database engineering or DBA experience on production platforms.
• Strong SQL Server administration, performance tuning and troubleshooting.
• Azure SQL and cloud-hosted database services; HA/DR with backup/restore.
• Automation experience with PowerShell or Python.
• Experience with incident, problem and change management processes.

Responsibilities

• Own operational health and performance of SQL Server and Azure SQL platforms.
• Plan upgrades, patching and platform lifecycle activities.
• Diagnose performance issues across infrastructure, workloads and application interactions.
• Design, implement and validate backup, recovery and disaster recovery capabilities.
• Establish monitoring, alerting and observability for database services.
• Contribute to migration toward PostgreSQL and cloud-native services.

Skills

SQL Server

Azure SQL

HA/DR

Automation (PowerShell/Python)

Monitoring & observability

Incident management

Security & governance

Terraform / IaC

Tools

Databricks

Terraform

Bicep

Azure Cloud

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, and help modernise toward PostgreSQL, cloud-native services and lakehouse architectures.

This is a hands-on role working with Platform, Data and Operations teams to ensure resilient, scalable data services. You will implement monitoring, automation and disaster recovery in a remote-first environment with London