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We are automating database operations, strengthening cloud and infrastructure-as-code practices, and giving engineering teams clearer, safer ways to use database services.\nThe team is also progressing a major transition from Microsoft SQL Server towards PostgreSQL, creating meaningful technical change for someone who enjoys both depth and improvement.\nA day in the life:\nSupport mission-critical PostgreSQL and AWS database services with strong operational discipline.\n\nAutomate repeatable DBA work using infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD and deployment pipelines.\n\nImprove backup, restore, monitoring and replication practices.\n\nPartner with Cloud Infrastructure colleagues on AWS, Terraform and platform patterns.\n\nHelp engineers self-serve database capabilities safely and with clear guardrails.\n\nContribute to the move away from Microsoft SQL Server towards PostgreSQL.\n\nJoin the shared on-call rota and continually reduce avoidable alerting and toil.\n\nAbout you:\nPractical AWS experience supporting mission-critical database services.\n\nStrong PostgreSQL knowledge and experience with backup and restore.\n\nTerraform and CI/CD experience, with a focus on automation.\n\nExperience participating in on-call support for production services.\n\nA database-engineering mindset combined with practical platform automation.\n\nAbility to reason about reliability, resilience, security and operability.\n\nCollaborative working style and confidence partnering with platform engineers.\n\nAdded bonus:\nAWS certification.\n\nExperience supporting MySQL or SQL Server instances.\n\nDatabase automation and PostgreSQL replication experience.\n\nMonitoring experience with Redgate Monitor, Honeycomb or comparable tools.\n\nPragmatic use of AI in day-to-day engineering work.","description_format":"text","description_chars":2034,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Financial Services","Professional Services","Payment Processing & Gateways","Consumer Loans & Pawnshops"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-30T13:43:57Z"}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":58,"reasons":["conf:3","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/zopa-database-platform-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/zopa-database-platform-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-01T21:39:38Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":4277,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":723,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-02T00:00:00Z"}}}