Managing Engineer - Database & Platform (Hybrid)

Key responsibilities 

• 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. 

Essential Criteria 

• 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. 

Desirable Criteria 

• Experience with managed database services (MongoDB Atlas, Amazon RDS, Aurora, Azure, ElastiCache) and hybrid cloud architectures. 

• Familiarity with observability stacks (Datadog etc) and log aggregation. 

• Knowledge of security and compliance controls relevant to data stores (encryption at rest/in transit, IAM, auditing). 

• Experience with large‑scale data migrations and cross‑region replication. 

• Relevant certifications (MongoDB Certified DBA, AWS/Azure//GCP certifications). 

Supervisory responsibilities 

Directly manage a team of 4-10 Database Administrators / Platform Engineers. Responsible for staffing, performance management, career development, and setting team goals and KPIs. Collaborates with hiring managers and senior leadership on resourcing and budget priorities. 
 
Job Posting End Date: Monday 29th June 2026 [11.59pm] 

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