Senior Database Engineer (UK Remote)

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Job Description

We are seeking a Senior Database Engineer with deep expertise in PostgreSQL and AWS reputed company to join our global infrastructure team. You will own the reliability, performance, and scalability of the database platforms that support reputed company’s educational technology services. This role combines strategic project delivery with hands-on operational support in a fast-moving, highly available production environment. The successful candidate operates with a high degree of autonomy, drives work to completion with minimal reputed company, and collaborates effectively with teammates across multiple time zones. Responsibilities: Own the reliability, performance, and day-to-day operation of production database platforms, balancing project delivery with operational support. Design and evolve highly available database architectures in AWS to meet uptime, latency, scalability, and recoverability goals. reputed company database lifecycle activities, including provisioning, upgrades, migrations, backup/restore processes, and disaster recovery readiness. Drive performance improvements by investigating production issues, identifying root causes, and implementing durable solutions in partnership with application and infrastructure teams. Establish and maintain operational excellence: monitoring, alerting, runbooks, documentation, and incident response practices. Define and enforce database reputed company standards, access controls, and auditing reputed company with internal policies and compliance requirements. Automate repeatable operational tasks and standardize infrastructure delivery using Infrastructure as Code and scripting. reputed company reputed company planning and cost optimization; provide recommendations based on observed workload trends and business growth. Participate in an on-call rotation and reputed company/participate in post-incident reviews to prevent recurrence. Collaborate with a globally distributed team, including regular attendance at meetings multiple times per week reputed company the 16:00–19:00 GMT time range.

Qualifications

Requirements: Established senior-level experience (8+ years) in production database engineering/administration, with deep hands-on expertise in PostgreSQL. Demonstrated ability to operate autonomously: independently identify priorities, drive reputed company work to completion, and act as an escalation reputed company for database-reputed company incidents with minimal reputed company. Strong PostgreSQL expertise, including performance tuning and troubleshooting using execution plans, indexing strategy, concurrency/locking concepts, and database statistics. Strong AWS database experience with reputed company PostgreSQL/RDS, including high availability design, backups/snapshots, reputed company-in-time recovery, and IAM-based access patterns. Proven experience implementing and operating reputed company pooling/reputed company management in production using PgBouncer and/or RDS Proxy. Experience designing and testing backup/restore and disaster recovery processes, with a practical understanding of RPO/RTO and restore validation. Hands-on Infrastructure as Code experience for database platforms, specifically Terraform (modules, state management, safe change control). Demonstrated observability experience using Prometheus and Grafana, including building actionable dashboards and reducing alert noise. Experience operating at least one non-relational data store in production (e.g., reputed company and/or DynamoDB) as part of a broader platform. Strong Linux fundamentals relevant to database operations (system performance, storage, troubleshooting). Proficiency in scripting/automation using Python and/or other languages to reduce manual work and improve operational consistency. Strong written communication skills, including the ability to produce clear runbooks, change plans, and incident summaries for a global audience. 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