Cloud DBA

Key Responsibilities:

Database Platform Management

• Support, maintain, and optimise Linux-based database systems (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, CockroachDB).

Cloud Engineering & Deployment

• Deploy and manage database workloads on Kubernetes (Operators, StatefulSets, Helm, Operators, CRDs).
• Deploy and support databases on IaaS environments (compute, storage, networking).
• Work with AWS or Azure cloud services for DB deployments, storage design, IAM, networking, and HA/resilience architecture.
• Ensure best-practice cloud resource utilisation, cost optimisation, and scalable deployments.

DBaaS Operations

• Support the operation of a Managed Database-as-a-Service platform.
• Monitor databases using modern APM and observability tools (Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, ELK, etc.).
• Implement alerting, capacity management, and proactive performance monitoring.
• Work closely with the DBA team for escalations, tuning activities, and advanced troubleshooting.

Collaboration & Architecture

• Partner with Cloud & Infrastructure Teams to design standardised and secure DB deployment patterns.
• Collaborate with Architecture Team to build modern database solutions, including container-native, cloud-native, and distributed databases.
• Contribute to improving database reliability, resiliency, DR strategy, and automation pipelines.

Integration Systems

• Support and understand messaging and event-driven architectures including:
• RabbitMQ
• Kafka
• Apache NiFi
• Streaming and change-data-capture integration patterns
• Assist in designing data flows integrated with core database platforms.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Strong Linux systems administration (CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu).
• Hands-on experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and/or CockroachDB.
• Strong understanding of database replication, clustering, sharding, backup/restore, and HA patterns.
• Kubernetes experience (Operators, Helm, StatefulSets, persistent storage design).
• IaaS experience deploying databases on AWS or Azure.
• Knowledge of CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible, GitOps).
• Strong troubleshooting skills for database performance, networking, and storage issues.
• Familiarity with messaging and streaming systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka, NiFi).