Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE)Octopus Energy
London, UK 24-10-2023
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Kraken is the technology tentacle of the Octopus Energy Group.
At Kraken Technologies we’re looking to revolutionise the energy system to make power cheaper, greener and better for people around the world. Our tech platform ‘Kraken’ is already licensed to support 40 million customer accounts in 14 countries, and we aim to serve 100 million globally by 2027.
Our Technology Team has grown extremely quickly as a result, tripling in size within the last 18 months. With this rapid growth, we are looking for proactive Product Managers to join our team and work with our developers, ensuring what they do has the highest impact for our customers.
Our Global Platform Engineering department is responsible for architecting, developing, and maintaining the robust and scalable infrastructure, tooling, and services that power and support our platform. As a Database Reliability Engineer within the Platform department, you'll play a crucial role in ensuring the availability, performance, and integrity of our databases.
Your proficiency in database management and optimisation techniques will shape our approach, ensuring stability and high performance for our brands and clients. Staying abreast of the latest trends in database technologies and best practices will be vital. Your analytical skills and attention to detail will be indispensable as you pinpoint areas for enhancement, ensure optimal database operations, and continuously improve our database reliability and efficiency.
What You'll do
- Ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of our databases hosted in AWS
- Monitor database performance, implement optimisations, and assist in database capacity planning
- Implement monitoring and observability of database metrics
- Work closely with application teams to ensure database changes adhere to best practices and performance benchmarks
- Keep up to date on the latest developments and best practices in AWS and PostgreSQL
- Liaise with our AWS account team and relevant AWS service teams where required
What you'll have
- Expertise in administering, tuning, and maintaining PostgreSQL databases
- Hands-on experience with AWS, particularly RDS, EC2, S3, and DMS.
- A solid understanding of database design, SQL, and transactional processing.
- Knowledge of security best practices for databases, especially hosted in AWS
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
- General ability to diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve database-related issues in a timely manner
- Some experience with other relational databases or NoSQL databases
What would help
- Understanding the complexities and challenges of large scale distributed systems
- Experience managing very large databases
- Python experience, particularly with Django and the Django ORM
- Familiarity with data engineering tools, including Kafka, Spark, and Airflow.
- Understanding of ETL processes and tooling with PostgreSQL databases
- Experience with CDC tooling and integrating PostgreSQL data with Datalake solutions
Why else you'll love it here
- Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it's something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don't advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Octopus - what's more important to us is finding the right octofit!
- Octopus Energy is a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! We won best company to work for in 2022, on Glassdoor we we're voted 50 best places to work in 2022 and our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people
- Visit our perks hub - Octopus Employee Benefits
We’re looking for someone who thrives on solving tough problems. Someone who can challenge those around them, and be challenged, while delivering delightful experiences for our internal and external customers.
If this sounds like a great opportunity but you are based outside of London, we are also open to remote working 🏠
If this sounds like you then we'd love to hear from you.
Studies have shown that some groups of people, like women, are less likely to apply to a role unless they meet 100% of the job requirements. Whoever you are, if you like one of our jobs, we encourage you to apply as you might just be the candidate we hire. Across Octopus, we're looking for genuinely decent people who are honest and empathetic. Our people are our strongest asset and the unique skills and perspectives people bring to the team are the driving force of our success. As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute. Our commitment is to provide equal opportunities, an inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone.
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