Cloud Database Engineer

Altimetrik Poland is a digital enablement company. We deliver bite-size outcomes to enterprises and startups from all industries in an agile way to help them scale and accelerate their businesses. We are unique in Poland's IT market. Our differentiators are an innovation-first approach, a strong focus on core development, and an ability to attack the challenging and complex problems of the biggest companies in the world.

For our Fintech client from the UK, we are seeking a Cloud Database Engineer to join our growing team. The ideal candidate for this role will designs, manages, and optimises cloud-based database systems, ensuring scalability, performance, and data security while supporting business-critical applications.

Responsibilities:

• Customer / client centricity:

Ensures that cloud database services meet client expectations regarding reliability, performance, and security

Actively works to troubleshoot and resolve client issues related to cloud database environments, ensuring minimal downtime and optimal performance

Collaborates with clients to ensure that cloud database solutions align with their needs and support their operational goals

• Data & reporting:

Gathers and analyses data on database performance metrics, resource usage, and incidents in cloud environments

Produces regular reports that highlight database performance, cost management, and optimization opportunities within the cloud infrastructure

Ensures data accuracy in reporting to support strategic decisions regarding cloud database management

• Industry knowledge:

Stays up to date with cloud database technologies, trends, and best practices, including platforms like AWS RDS, Azure SQL Database, or Google Cloud SQL

Applies knowledge of cloud database advancements to drive improvements in data management and retrieval efficiency

Ensures the organization’s cloud database strategies are aligned with modern industry practices and innovations

• Planning & prioritisation:

Manages the prioritisation of cloud database tasks, such as updates, patches, and incident responses

Plans cloud database resource allocation effectively, ensuring high-priority issues are addressed promptly and efficiently

Works with other teams to coordinate database deployments and updates, ensuring seamless transitions and minimal disruption to service

• Product Knowledge:

Requires a detailed understanding of cloud-based data products and database technologies that support the company’s offerings Familiarity with database architecture, cloud solutions, and how they support the scalability and reliability of products.

• Strategic impact:

Ensures that cloud database strategies and solutions align with the organization’s broader business objectives

Recognizes how cloud database performance impacts organizational scalability and agility, contributing to the company's success Identifies ways to optimize cloud database resources to improve cost-efficiency and performance, ensuring alignment with strategic goals 

If you possess...

• Previously used SQL monitoring and performance tools.
• Demonstrable experience installing, scaling and maintaining MSSQL in HA architecture
• Securing and safeguarding sensitive data and maintaining referential integrity
• Architecting backup and disaster recovery strategies
• Performance tuning T-SQL for high throughput environments
• Experience with Installation,
• Performance monitoring, Security, and high availability and backups.
• Experience working with development life cycle models including CI/CD pipelines.

… then we are looking for you!

We work 100% remotely or from our hub in Kraków.

🔥We grow fast.

🤓We learn a lot.

🤹We prefer to do things instead of just talking about them.

If you would like to work in an environment that values trust and empowerment... don't hesitate, just apply!