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Database Reliability Engineer
Compare the Market
London, GBR
Full-time
Mid-Senior
Onsite
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Database designDatabase performance optimisationReliability engineeringDatabase and data platform operationsMonitoring and observabilityAlerting
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Role Overview
The Database Reliability Engineer works within the technology function in London.
The role supports financial decision-making services used by millions of customers through reliable database and data platforms.
Key Skills for This Role
Database designDatabase performance optimisationReliability engineeringDatabase and data platform operationsMonitoring and observabilityAlerting
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Job Description
The Database Reliability Engineer works within the technology function in London.
The role supports financial decision-making services used by millions of customers through reliable database and data platforms.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Design, configure, and operate highly available database and data storage systems supporting critical platform and business services.
- Drive reliability, performance, scalability, and operational excellence across database and data platform environments.
- Lead platform improvement initiatives from design through deployment and ongoing production support.
- Monitor, optimise, and automate database operations to improve resilience, availability, and efficiency.
- Identify technical debt, capacity constraints, performance bottlenecks, and operational risks across the data platform.
- Support data pipelines and services by ensuring storage and database layers are scalable, performant, and well governed.
- Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement activities.
- Collaborate with engineers and data specialists to share knowledge, improve standards, and evolve platform capabilities.
What We’re Looking For
- Strong experience operating and improving production database or data platform systems.
- Proven ability to own services end to end and improve reliability, performance, and operability.
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