Senior Database Engineer

- We own and evolve our mission-critical database platforms in a high-availability, 24/7 production environment. - We lead the design, build, and operations of large-scale database platforms including MongoDB Enterprise, Percona MongoDB, MongoDB Atlas, SQL Server, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, and MySQL. - We ensure high availability, fault tolerance, backup, and disaster recovery across multi-region deployments with strict uptime SLAs. - We drive capacity planning, performance optimisation, and lifecycle management for production databases. - We own production support and incident management for database services, including high-severity incidents. - We lead root cause analysis and implement permanent fixes to reduce recurrence and improve MTTR. - We define and implement SRE practices such as SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, proactive monitoring, and alerting. - We design and develop automation using Ansible, Python, Bash, and PowerShell to remove manual work in patching, deployment, DR testing, monitoring, and compliance validation. - We integrate database operations into CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices. - We apply software engineering principles to database operations to improve consistency, repeatability, and scalability. - We identify and proactively mitigate operational and architectural risks related to database platforms. - We define and enforce security, governance, and compliance controls aligned with enterprise and regulatory standards. - We support audits and contribute to policy development and standard operating procedures. - We work closely with application teams, product managers, architects, cloud teams, and infrastructure teams to align database solutions with business needs. - We act as technical advisors to stakeholders, providing data-driven recommendations on platform strategy and optimisation. - We mentor and coach DBA and SRE teams across locations to raise operational maturity.