Database Platform Engineer
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
McGregor Boyall Associates Limited
team and help operate, scale, and modernize a global deployment of Snowflake, PostgreSQL, and Greenplum platforms-supporting more than 10,000+ distributed clusters . If you're passionate about automation, performance engineering, and next-generation data platforms, this role offers the scale, complexity, and impact you're looking for. In this role, you will design and manage large-scale … distributed database systems, architect hybrid and multi-cloud deployments across AWS and Azure, and build automation frameworks that enable self-healing, auto-scaling, and intelligent monitoring. You'll collaborate closely with data engineering, platform, and application teams to ensure world-class availability, security, and performance. You will also drive modernization initiatives, including cloud-native adoption, serverless architectures, Snowflake … across the organisation. Key Skills & Experience: Deep expertise in PostgreSQL and Snowflake administration, performance tuning, and cluster optimisation * Proven experience operating large-scale distributed systems (100K+ clusters preferred) * Strong automation and scripting skills ( Python, Terraform, Ansible) * Experience with IaC, CI/CD and cloud-native architectures in AWS/Azure * Knowledge of Snowflake design patterns, migration workflows and cost More ❯
Employment Type: Contract
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