Senior Database Engineer

About the role

An operations focused database role owning the health and day to day running of a production data estate. The engineer will handle upgrades, performance, migrations, recovery and incidents while working with a senior database architect.

What you will do

• Plan and carry out version upgrades after checking driver compatibility, deprecated features and query behaviour
• Profile workloads and read explain plans to fix slow queries, then add or retire indexes
• Run pre-deployment schema and data migrations with checks, verification and tested rollback
• Manage versioned migrations in Git reviewed through pull requests and applied via CI
• Handle customer data requests such as extracts, corrections and deletions with approvals and audit trails

What they look for

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience
• Five or more years administering production databases
• Willingness to take part in an on-call rotation