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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in managing AWS infrastructure, particularly with RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL, while ensuring security and performance through automation and best practices. Proven ability to lead database migrations, improve CI/CD processes, and mentor engineering teams.
Highest-signal resume keywords
AWS Infrastructure ManagementPostgreSQL AdministrationInfrastructure as CodeCI/CD Pipeline ImprovementTechnical Mentorship
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Hard Skills
PostgreSQL AdministrationAWS ManagementPython ProgrammingBash ScriptingC# ProgrammingJavaScript ProgrammingInfrastructure as CodeCI/CD PracticesPerformance TuningAutomation
Soft Skills
Technical LeadershipCollaborationProblem-SolvingMentoring
Tools & Technologies
RDSAuroraDynamoDBOpenSearchCloudFormationTerraformGitValkey
Certifications & Qualifications
AWS Certifications
Industry Keywords
Site Reliability EngineeringDevOpsCloud InfrastructureDatabase ManagementObservability
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAWSCloudDynamoDBElasticSearchJavaScriptPostgresPythonRedisTerraform
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Own the reliability, performance and capacity of RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Valkey and OpenSearch
- Lead database upgrades and migrations
- Maintain tested backup and recovery procedures
- Work with developers to improve queries and data access patterns
- Build and maintain secure, scalable and cost-aware AWS infrastructure across multiple environments and regions using Infrastructure as Code
- Identify reliability risks and standardise infrastructure patterns
- Understand existing processes, identify bottlenecks and automate repetitive work
- Improve CI/CD pipelines and build reusable self-service tooling
- Maintain actionable monitoring and alerts
- Lead complex incident investigations and implement preventative fixes
- Maintain operational runbooks and participate in the weekly out-of-hours on-call rotation
- Apply secure defaults including least-privilege access, encryption and secrets management
- Identify and address security gaps and align configurations and auditing with AWS best practices
- Partner with development and Quality Engineering teams on technical decisions
- Mentor engineers, review infrastructure and automation changes, and share knowledge
Requirements
What you’ll need- Strong hands-on experience operating production AWS infrastructure, including networking, IAM, security and observability
- Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL administration, preferably with RDS and Aurora, including query tuning, indexing, locking, connection management and recovery
- Production experience with DynamoDB, Valkey or Redis-compatible caches, and OpenSearch or Elasticsearch, including performance tuning, capacity management and failover
- Strong proficiency in Python, Bash, C# or JavaScript
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation or Terraform
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git and code review practices
- Typically 5+ years in DevOps, Cloud, Platform or Site Reliability Engineering, or a related role
- Demonstrated ownership of production databases and cloud infrastructure
- Track record of delivering practical improvements through automation
- Experience leading complex technical investigations and implementing lasting fixes
- Experience guiding other engineers and working across development and operational teams
- Relevant AWS certifications are desirable
Benefits
Comp & perks- Flexible and hybrid working
- Career and learning opportunities
- Additional time off
- Gym membership
- Celebrations, socials and sports teams
- Access to sailing and yacht events
- Access to LEAP Home program to support buying a primary residence
- Trust and autonomy
- Opportunity to work on big and complex projects
- Inclusive, people-first company culture