Platform Specialist - Databases

Role Overview :

As a Platform Specialist on the Database team, you will play a crucial technical role in delivering highly available, high-performance and scalable data infrastructure that supports trading and research, using the DevOps methodology. You will be part of a global systems team, working closely with development, investment and infrastructure teams to design, deploy and support cross-platform database solutions across relational and analytical engines.

You will have the opportunity to make a significant impact by treating databases as a service: automating provisioning, upgrades, patching and recovery so that teams get reliable, secure and consistent data platforms without manual effort. This is a hands-on engineering role, and you will be comfortable moving between deep database administration and automation, and between traditional servers and containerised platforms. The day to day will consist of:

• Database Operations: Running resilient, well-tuned production clusters, including replication, failover, backup and recovery.
• Automation & Delivery: Building tested, repeatable automation and pipelines for deploying and maintaining database estates.
• Platform Migration: Evolving database platforms from traditional infrastructure towards container-based deployment.
• Security & Compliance: Protecting sensitive data through hardened configuration, encryption, auditing and timely patching.
• Observability & Reliability: Monitoring, alerting and runbooks that keep service levels high and reduce operational noise.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of database administration experience (at least PostgreSQL or ClickHouse).
• Experience with high availability, replication, backup/PITR how and disaster recovery.
• Knowledge of indexes, triggers, stored procedure development and optimization.
• Knowledge of database security: TLS/PKI, audit logging, hardening, patch and CVE management.
• Experience with Linux systems administration.
• Basic understanding of source control concepts, best practices, and the software development lifecycle.
• Full project life cycle ownership: project delivery from initiation to full implementation and deployment.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Systematic and iterative approach to analyzing and improving systems and processes.
• Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related experience.

Nice to have:

• Experience with other database platforms ClickHouse, FoundationDb, MSSQL, MongoDb, Redis.
• Experience with configuration management tools i.e. Chef, Terraform, Ansible.
• Proficiency in Python
• Experience with using observability & monitoring stack such as Prometheus exporters, LogStash, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, and AlertManager.
• Experience with CI / CD pipelines.
• Experience with virtualization technologies such as VMware and containers (standalone and Kubernetes).
• Experience with Windows systems administration.