Cloud DBA

Key Responsibilities:

Database Platform Management

- Support, maintain, and optimise Linux-based database systems (MySQL, Postgre

SQL, Mongo

DB, Cockroach

DB).

Cloud Engineering & Deployment

- Deploy and manage database workloads on Kubernetes (Operators, Stateful Sets, 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 Ni Fi
- 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, Postgre

SQL, Mongo

DB, and/or Cockroach

DB.
- Strong understanding of database replication, clustering, sharding, backup/restore, and HA patterns.
- Kubernetes experience (Operators, Helm, Stateful Sets, persistent storage design).
- IaaS experience deploying databases on AWS or Azure.
- Knowledge of CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible, Git Ops).
- Strong troubleshooting skills for database performance, networking, and storage issues.
- Familiarity with messaging and streaming systems (Rabbit

MQ, Kafka, NiFi).