Managing Engineer – Database, Platform

Role Overview

• Manage, mentor, and grow a team of Database Administrators / Platform Engineers (hiring, performance reviews, career development, coaching).
• Own the technical roadmap for database platform services (MySQL, Redis, MongoDB on prem, and MongoDB Atlas), driving improvements in scalability, availability, performance, and cost.
• Lead platform engineering work: installation, configuration, upgrades, automation, backup/restore, patching, capacity planning, and runbooks for production systems.
• Design and implement database architecture and operational patterns (sharding/replication strategies, high availability, disaster recovery, backup retention, and failover).
• Build and improve CI/CD and automation pipelines for database provisioning, schema changes, migrations, and configuration management.
• Partner with product engineering, SRE, security, and cloud teams to define SLAs/SLOs, incident response, root cause analysis, and risk mitigation.
• Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability for database health and performance.
• Drive proactive incident prevention.
• Define and enforce standards, best practices, and governance for database access, security, backups, and compliance.
• Participate in design reviews, capacity planning, and product inception to translate feature requirements into scalable data solutions.
• Lead post incident reviews and continuous improvement initiatives to reduce mean time to detect and recover.
• Represent the database platform across cross functional initiatives and influence long term architecture decisions.

Requirements

• 5+ years total experience in database administration, data platform engineering, or related roles with 3+ years in a people management or technical leadership capacity.
• A minimum of 3+ years of hands-on experience working with MongoDB, including deployment, optimization, and support of production environments.
• Proven experience managing production deployments both on premises and in cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of database internals, replication, sharding, performance tuning, and backup/restore strategies.
• Proven experience designing and building database solutions, including schema design, data modelling, indexing strategies, query optimization, and implementing scalable, highly available data architectures.
• Experience with automation and orchestration tools.
• Familiar with CI/CD concepts and tools used to automate schema migrations and platform changes.
• Strong incident management experience and ability to lead technical incident response.
• Excellent communication skills; ability to partner with vendor, product, SRE, security, and engineering leadership.

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• MongoDB
• MySQL
• Redis

Benefits

• Corporate bonus scheme
• Pension scheme
• Annual performance-related pay reviews
• Life assurance and income protection
• Flexible working options
• Hybrid working
• Private medical and dental insurance
• Access to an employee assistance programme
• Discounted gym membership
• Two paid volunteering days each year
• Cycle to work scheme