Database Reliability Engineer

Salary: £85,000 - 85,000 per year

Requirements:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with MongoDB and PostgreSQL in a large-scale environment
• DBA background in PostgreSQL and MongoDB
• Site reliability experience
• Experience building Helm charts using Kubernetes
• Experience with cloud-based database services
• Experience with data platforms in AI
• Expertise with Kubernetes and Docker for containerized applications
• Advanced skills in infrastructure coding and automation using Python, Ansible, Terraform, and GitHub Actions
• Experience with performance tuning, optimization, and database scalability
• Strong understanding of database observability, security, backups, and disaster recovery strategies
• Excellent leadership, problem-solving, and analytical skills
• Ability to work collaboratively and influence cross-functional teams
• Preferred: familiarity with analytics database technologies such as ClickHouse and StarRocks
• Preferred: familiarity with CI/CD tools such as ArgoCD and Jenkins for database operations
• Preferred: strong understanding of distributed database architecture

Responsibilities:

• Ensure production and lower environments are deployed, configured, maintained, and monitored for reliability and resilience
• Ensure environments are fully performant in support of the applications
• Implement best practices for database performance, security, backup, disaster recovery, and secure data removal and transfer
• Maintain vendor relationships in support of the environments
• Provide technical leadership and act as an escalation point for junior engineers
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines specific to database operations, with an emphasis on automation and scalability
• Collaborate with private cloud, DevOps, and development teams across deployment and maintenance activities
• Mentor junior engineers and act as a technical advisor to cross-functional teams

Technologies:

• AI
• Ansible
• ArgoCD
• CI/CD
• ClickHouse
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Docker
• GitHub
• Helm
• Support
• Jenkins
• Kubernetes
• MongoDB
• PostgreSQL
• Python
• Security
• Terraform
• NoSQL

More:

We are a leading financial services and healthcare technology company with more than 27,000 employees across 35 countries. Our expertise, scale, and technology support around 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the worlds largest companies to small and mid-market firms. We offer a hybrid working arrangement with a minimum of 6 days per month in the office. We value diversity, honesty, collaboration, accountability, and innovation, and we are committed to attracting bright talent at every stage of their career.

last updated 31 week of 2026