Responsibilities
- Modernize and Scale the RDS Fleet: Ensure the rock-solid reliability of our existing RDS footprint. Architect automated strategies for seamless, multi-version upgrades and proactive performance tuning to minimize downtime across hundreds of instances.
- Architect Cross-Cloud Portability: Use CNPG and cloud-native patterns to keep our database layer provider-agnostic, enabling seamless deployment across AWS and GCP.
- Evolve Observability & Monitoring: Build deep, proactive monitoring and alerting for our global database fleet to detect performance regressions and health issues before they impact our customers.
- Support Replication & Mobility: Enable data streaming and "Zero-Downtime" migration strategies, ensuring data consistency and availability.
- Fortify Business Continuity (BCP): Design and implement rigorous Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery strategies, building automation that ensures data durability and rapid recovery across regions, guaranteeing resilience in the face of failures.
Requirements
- PostgreSQL & Kubernetes Expert: Extensive experience with Postgres and a passion for running stateful workloads natively on Kubernetes. Will leverage CNPG for persistence, high availability, and automated failover.
- Systems Thinker: Prefer Infrastructure-as-Code, using Terraform to provision the foundation and custom APIs for orchestration.
- Distributed Systems Enthusiast: Excited by challenges of multi‑tenant, multi‑region, and multi‑cloud environments while ensuring data integrity and mobility.
- Security & Observability Mindset: Prioritize security and build deep observability (Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry/Humio) with automated guardrails.
- Engineering via Code: Primarily deliver via code; use Java to build robust, testable backend services that orchestrate our data layer, with clean relational modeling and performant DDL.
Benefits
- 25 days holiday (plus public holiday allowance).
- One extra day’s holiday for your birthday.
- Annual leave increased with length of service; option to buy or sell up to five extra days.
- 16 hours paid volunteering time a year.
- Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme.
- Life insurance at 4× salary & group income protection.
- Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care.
- Partner discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton.
- Generous family‑friendly policies.
- Perkbox membership for retail discounts, wellness platform, and weekly perks.
- Access to initiatives: Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrifed Gym partnerships, Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing.
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