Database Platform Engineer

📋 Job Overview

We’re Zopa, a company that started in 2005 as the first peer-to-peer lending company. In 2020, we launched Zopa Bank, focusing on redefining banking by putting people front and centre. We’ve been recognized as one of the UK’s Most Loved Workplaces and are now looking for a Database Administrator to join our team.

🏢 About Zopa

We started our journey back in 2005, building the first ever peer-to-peer lending company. Fast forward to 2020 and we launched Zopa Bank. A bank that listens to what our customers don’t like about finance and does the opposite. We’re redefining what it feels like to work in finance. Our vision for a new era of banking puts people front and centre — we’ve built a business that empowers everyone to aim high, every day, to move finance forward. Find out more about our fantastic offerings at Zopa.com!

🎯 The Role

The DBA team sits within Zopa’s Platform Tribe, alongside Cloud Infrastructure and DevX. We support the databases and data stores behind critical customer and engineering services, while evolving how those services are delivered. This is not a traditional, server-only DBA role. We are automating database operations, strengthening cloud and infrastructure-as-code practices, and giving engineering teams clearer, safer ways to use database services. The 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.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Support mission-critical PostgreSQL and AWS database services with strong operational discipline.
• Automate repeatable DBA work using infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD and deployment pipelines.
• Improve backup, restore, monitoring and replication practices.
• Partner with Cloud Infrastructure colleagues on AWS, Terraform and platform patterns.
• Help engineers self-serve database capabilities safely and with clear guardrails.
• Contribute to the move away from Microsoft SQL Server towards PostgreSQL.
• Join the shared on-call rota and continually reduce avoidable alerting and toil.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Practical AWS experience supporting mission-critical database services.
• Strong PostgreSQL knowledge and experience with backup and restore.
• Terraform and CI/CD experience, with a focus on automation.
• Experience participating in on-call support for production services.
• A database-engineering mindset combined with practical platform automation.
• Ability to reason about reliability, resilience, security and operability.
• Collaborative working style and confidence partnering with platform engineers.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• AWS certification.
• Experience supporting MySQL or SQL Server instances.
• Database automation and PostgreSQL replication experience.
• Monitoring experience with Redgate Monitor, Honeycomb or comparable tools.
• Pragmatic use of AI in day-to-day engineering work.

🎁 Benefits

We value flexible ways of working. This hybrid role requires you to come to our London office 2-3 days a week. You'll also have the option of working from abroad for up to 120 days a year! But no matter where you are, we’ll make sure you’ve got everything you need to thrive, both in your work and home life, from day one.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

*Subject to having the right to work in the country of choice