Platform Engineer

ENVIRONMENT :

A Site Reliability Engineering team is seeking a Database & Platform Engineer (DBA Focus) who will work as part of the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team within Computing & Software.

The Platform Engineer (DBA Focus) is a specialised engineering role where database administration expertise is primary, complemented by platform and operations skills to enable deployment, scalability, and automation. The role is responsible for designing, configuring, tuning, and operating relational, time-series, and NoSQL databases — including Postgres, MariaDB, MySQL, Timescale DB, Influx DB, OpenBSD, Elasticsearch, and Redis — to ensure optimal performance, availability, and reliability. The engineer will deploy and manage databases in distributed, containerized, and cloud environments, leveraging automation and orchestration tools. The role requires understanding distributed parallel file systems and object storage from the perspective of database operation, performance, and data reliability, enabling effective database configuration, tuning, and coordination with platform teams for storage-level considerations.

DUTIES :

• Design, implement, and maintain relational (Postgres, MariaDB, MySQL), time-series (Timescale DB, Influx DB, OpenBSD), and NoSQL (Elasticsearch, Redis) databases.
• Develop and optimise SQL queries, stored procedures, and database APIs using Python or PHP.
• Configure, deploy, and operate databases across distributed, containerised, and cloud environments (AWS, GCP, OpenStack, Kubernetes).
• Monitor, tune, and troubleshoot database performance to ensure high availability, durability, and reliability.
• Implement and manage backup, restore, and disaster recovery workflows using distributed and object storage systems.
• Collaborate with platform engineering teams on storage provisioning, replication, and system-level performance optimisation.
• Contribute to automation initiatives including database deployment, CI / CD pipelines, and real-time operational monitoring.
• Maintain and enforce database security best practices — including access controls, encryption, and secrets management.

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