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).

Skills Required
Elk, Postgresql, Prometheus, Kafka, Grafana, Datadog, Apache Nifi, New Relic, Rabbitmq, Terraform, Ansible, Mysql, Mongodb, Helm, Operators, Azure, Kubernetes, Aws