Hybrid Senior Database Reliability Engineer

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About the role

  • Senior Database Reliability Engineer enhancing MongoDB and PostgreSQL deployments at SS&C, a leader in financial services technology. Collaborating with teams to ensure operational reliability and mentor junior engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure that the production and lower environments are deployed, configured, maintained, and monitored for reliability and resilience.
  • Ensure the environments are fully performant in support of the application
  • Implement industry best practices for database performance, security, backup, disaster recovery and secure data removal/transfer.
  • Maintain vendor relationships in support of the environments
  • Provide technical leadership and an escalation point for the team of junior engineers
  • Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines specific to database operations, with an emphasis on automation and scalability.
  • Collaborate with private cloud, DevOps and development teams in all aspects of deployment and maintenance
  • Mentor junior engineers and act as a technical advisor to cross-functional teams.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience with MongoDB and PostgreSQL in a large-scale environment.
  • Expertise with Cloud-based database services.
  • Experience with a data platform in AI (Artificial Intelligence)
  • Expertise with Kubernetes and Docker for containerised applications.
  • Advanced skills in infrastructure coding and automation using Python, Ansible, Terraform, and GHA (GitHub Action).
  • Experience with performance tuning, optimisation, and scalability of databases.
  • Strong understanding of database observability, security, backups, and disaster recovery strategies.
  • Excellent leadership, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
  • Ability to work in a collaborative environment and influence cross-functional teams.

Benefits

  • Flexibility : Hybrid Work Model
  • Professional Development Reimbursement, including access to SS&C University
  • Competitive holiday scheme
  • Competitive benefits designed to support the well-being of our staff
  • Hands-On, Team-Customised Training throughout your career

Job title

Senior Database Reliability Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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