Job Description:
• Own and improve the reliability, performance, security, and scalability of production database systems.
• Lead database monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery practices.
• Identify, diagnose, and resolve complex database performance and availability issues.
• Partner with engineering teams on schema design, indexing strategies, query optimization, and safe database change management.
• Lead technical planning for database migrations, upgrades, scaling strategies, and operational improvements.
• Improve infrastructure-as-code, automation, observability, and repeatability across database operations.
• Define and maintain database runbooks, operational standards, and production readiness criteria.
• Participate in and, when appropriate, lead database-related incident response, post-incident reviews, and remediation planning.
• Collaborate with security, compliance, and delivery teams to meet customer, regulatory, and vetting requirements.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers, DBAs, and operational teams.
• Represent database reliability concerns in architecture reviews, roadmap planning, and customer-readiness discussions.
• Help build the operational foundation required to support UK police customers and future UK public safety partners.
Requirements:
• Significant professional experience administering MySQL or similar relational databases in production environments.
• Deep experience operating cloud-hosted database platforms, preferably AWS RDS, Aurora, or Azure database services.
• Strong expertise in database performance tuning, query optimization, replication, backup, recovery, and high availability.
• Experience designing and operating database infrastructure for complex cloud-based software applications.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, automation, observability, and production operations.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, networking, security, access controls, and operational risk.
• Ability to influence engineering teams and guide database design decisions across services.
• Strong incident management skills and sound judgment during high-pressure production events.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor teammates and improve team-wide technical practices.
• Eligibility and willingness to complete UK police vetting requirements for customer-facing public safety work.
Benefits:
• Total compensation for this role is market competitive and may include base salary, bonus opportunity, equity, and a comprehensive benefits package.