Lead Database & Data Platform Engineer
Core
Senior DBA owning the end-to-end relational database estate (SQL Server on EC2 and MySQL on RDS) for a merged company, responsible for immediate OS upgrades and long-term estate maturation.
Role type
Senior IC Database Administrator
Builds
Production database infrastructure and data standards
Domain
Financial technology / Cloud infrastructure
Required skills
Microsoft SQL Server administration, Windows Server administration, SQL Server upgrades, High Availability (Always On, Failover Clustering), MySQL administration, AWS EC2/RDS/S3/IAM/CloudWatch, Data standards definition
Preferred skills
Snowflake administration, ETL pipelines, Data warehouse design, Data lake management, BI/analytics tools, SQL Server migration to managed services
Responsibilities
Perform time-critical OS upgrades for SQL Server, manage SQL Server installation and configuration on self-hosted EC2, administer MySQL on RDS, define and enforce data standards across engineering teams, ensure high availability for production databases
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
