Database Operations Engineer

• The engineer will operate, maintain and improve databases, caching platforms and related middleware in cloud and
• production environments. The role focuses on availability, performance, automation, incident resolution and close
• collaboration with technical teams based in China.

Key responsibilities

• Operate, maintain and support relational databases, caching platforms and related middleware in cloud and

production environments.

• Monitor database availability, capacity, performance and reliability, and proactively address operational risks.
• Diagnose and resolve database incidents, performance degradation and resource bottlenecks.
• Perform installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, backup, recovery and routine database maintenance.
• Support database releases, migrations and controlled production changes.
• Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting, automation and operational procedures for database services.
• Collaborate daily in Mandarin with technical teams in China to implement common database and middleware

management standards.

• Assist application teams with database-related troubleshooting and production releases.
• Improve the utilisation, reliability and cost efficiency of database and application resources.
• Ensure data handling and database operations comply with applicable European data-protection requirements.
• Participate occasionally in an on-call rotation for urgent production incidents.