Senior Distributed DB & Platform Reliability Engineer

Junglee Games India Private Limited; Porto; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Blip, part of Flutter Entertainment, is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to join our platform team in Porto, Portugal. You will own the stability, scalability, and operational health of distributed database and data platform services powering our core products.

This role combines hands-on database administration with a strong DevOps mindset, working closely with Cloud, Security and Engineering teams to ensure reliability, compliance and scalable growth as the business expands.

Qualifications

• Experience administering large-scale distributed database clusters in production.
• Experience with search/indexing platforms and distributed coordination services.
• Strong DevOps mindset with automation and Infrastructure-as-Code experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational ownership of distributed NoSQL clusters and indexing platforms.
• Configure environments for sizing, capacity planning, high availability, replication, and resilience.
• Perform performance tuning, data retention and lifecycle management, and scaling planning.
• Plan, implement, and test disaster recovery and backup strategies with documented procedures.
• Maintain compliance with data retention, auditability, security hardening, and access management.
• Proactively monitor platform health, improve alerting and observability, and lead incident investigations and RCA.
• Support infrastructure provisioning, automation, IaC, and CI/CD across cloud infrastructure.
• Lead platform migrations, upgrades, and lifecycle management with minimal disruption to delivery teams.
• Collaborate with engineering for operational readiness reviews and platform best practices.
• Define, maintain, and enforce operational standards across environments and share knowledge.
• Participate in incident response and problem management, including post-incident analysis.

Skills

NoSQL databases

Distributed systems

DevOps

Automation

IaC

CI/CD

Cloud operations

Troubleshooting

Performance tuning

Disaster recovery

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud platforms

Job description

Blip, part of Flutter Entertainment, is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to join our platform team in Porto, Portugal. You will own the stability, scalability, and operational health of distributed database and data platform services powering our core products.

This role combines hands-on database administration with a strong DevOps mindset, working closely with Cloud, Security and Engineering teams to ensure reliability, compliance and scalable growth as the business expands.