Platform Engineer

ENVIRONMENT:

A Site Reliability Engineering team is seeking a Database & Platform Engineer (DBA Focus) who will work as part of the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team within Computing & Software.

The Platform Engineer (DBA Focus) is a specialised engineering role where database administration expertise is primary, complemented by platform and operations skills to enable deployment, scalability, and automation. The role is responsible for designing, configuring, tuning, and operating relational, time-series, and NoSQL databases — including Postgres, MariaDB, MySQL, Timescale DB, Influx DB, OpenBSD, Elasticsearch, and Redis — to ensure optimal performance, availability, and reliability. The engineer will deploy and manage databases in distributed, containerized, and cloud environments, leveraging automation and orchestration tools. The role requires understanding distributed parallel file systems and object storage from the perspective of database oper...