Database Administrator - PostgreSQL
Zopa Bank
- London, England, United Kingdom
- London, England, United Kingdom
About
Database Engineer
role at
Zopa Bank .
The Team This is an exciting opportunity for a Database Engineer with administration and development skills to join a small and friendly team of Database Engineers responsible for managing business critical databases hosted in AWS. The Database Administration (DBA) team is committed to ensuring optimal system performance, reliability, data integrity, and security, while maintaining 24/7 availability of customer data across diverse database platforms.
Tech stack
AWS RDS Aurora Postgres, AWS RDS MySQL, SQL Server hosted on AWS EC2, WSFC, AlwaysOn, RedGate tools, Terraform, Jira
A Day In The Life
You will be reporting into the Head of Data Platforms
You\'ll be providing standard database maintenance and administration tasks while working closely with Senior Database Engineers to maintain database systems
You\'ll perform all kind of BAU activities independently, and support database team stakeholders
You\'ll work closely with platform and development teams to make sure we get the best performance from our database systems
This role will require on-call participation on a rota basis
About You
Cloud IaaS and PaaS knowledge and experience with AWS services - RDS, EC2, IAM, S3, DMS, CloudWatch, Lambda
Knowledge and experience managing Aurora PostgreSQL, SQL Server and MySQL databases
The ability to write and execute SQL scripts in Production
Respond to a variety of database related requests on a daily basis
Show a willingness to learn about latest cloud & AI technologies in the database space
Maintain a consistently high level of service delivery for incidents, requests and changes
The ability to prioritise projects and tasks
Added Bonus
Experience with WSFC & SQL Server AlwaysOn availability groups
Knowledge of Postgres Logical replication and extensions
Previous experience using AI
Experience with terraform
Supported Redshift cluster databases
Worked with DB monitoring tools – Redgate Monitor
Worked with personal data in a regulated company
Hold AWS or Azure certificates
Work & Location We value flexible ways of working. This hybrid role requires you to come to our London office 2-3 days a week. You\'ll also have the option of working from abroad for up to 120 days a year. Subject to having the right to work in the country of choice.
Diversity Statement Zopa is proud to offer a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds leads to better products for our customers and a unique company culture for our people. We are made up of nearly 50 nationalities, have a DE&I forum, and we are proud of our culture where everyone can bring their full self to work. Our approach to DE&I is reflected in our hiring process, so please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments.
Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Information Technology
Industries: Financial Services, IT Services and IT Consulting, and Banking
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Languages
- English
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