Overview
Responsible for the reliability, performance, security, and recoverability of database, caching and messaging platforms supporting business-critical services and transactions.
Key Responsibilities
- Own PostgreSQL, Aurora PostgreSQL and SQL Server platforms.
- Manage Kafka/MSK, Redis, DocumentDB and Couchbase environments.
- Maintain backup, recovery and disaster-recovery capabilities.
- Perform tuning, optimisation and capacity planning.
- Support schema migrations and database lifecycle management.
- Maintain encryption, auditing and access controls.
Required Experience
- PostgreSQL and SQL Server administration.
- AWS database services including RDS and Aurora.
- Kafka/MSK, Redis and NoSQL technologies.
- Linux administration and automation.
- Disaster recovery and high-availability environments.
Service Recovery Objectives
Maintain tested recovery procedures supporting aggressive RPO and RTO targets for business-critical services.
Core Competencies
Data integrity, ownership, troubleshooting, risk management, and documentation.