Hybrid Database Reliability Engineer – SRE

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About the role

  • Senior Database Reliability Engineer responsible for managing database services across cloud and on-prem platforms at ANZ. Collaborating with teams to optimize performance and ensure reliability on the Payments platform.

Responsibilities

  • managing and optimizing database services across GCP, AWS, and on-prem environments, ensuring resilience, security, and high performance
  • supporting migrations from on-prem to cloud, automate workflows, and embed compliance and governance controls
  • collaborating with developers and Site Reliability engineers to improve developer experience and reduce operational toil through tooling and documentation
  • optimizing and supporting Cloud Native databases
  • managing and administering relational and NoSQL databases
  • supporting database transitions from on-prem to Cloud and hybrid environments
  • performing database backup/recovery, performance tuning, and security management
  • championing automation using IaC tools, including database change automation
  • building internal tooling and documentation to improve developer experience with database services
  • exploring and applying AI-driven solutions
  • contributing to SRE practices including observability, incident response, and error-budget aligned operations

Requirements

  • Strong hands-on experience with Cloud databases (e.g. Cloud Spanner, BigQuery) and relational databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL)
  • Expertise in NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Redis, ElasticSearch)
  • Experience in database migrations between on-prem and cloud platforms
  • Proficiency in database backup/recovery, performance tuning, and security management
  • Experience in Terraform, Git, Codefresh, Python, and CI/CD pipelines for cloud infrastructure
  • Knowledge of ETL/ELT workflows and data integration patterns
  • Understanding of SRE principles (SLIs/SLOs, incident response, observability) and ability to define/measure DB-focused SLIs
  • Familiarity with observability tooling and centralized logging/tracing
  • Experience with data compliance and security tooling (IAM, encryption, auditing)
  • Awareness of FinOps practices for data platforms (cost governance for BigQuery/Spanner and data pipelines)
  • Interest or experience in AI-driven database engineering (e.g., query tuning, anomaly detection, usage pattern analysis)
  • Ability to influence technical practices within the team, with strong collaboration and stakeholder communication skills

Benefits

  • access to wellbeing services
  • discounts on selected products and services from ANZ
  • flexible working arrangements

Job title

Database Reliability Engineer – SRE

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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