Postgres Data Platform Engineer (Fixed Term Contract)

“Ocado Technology, powering the future of retail through sustained disruptive technology innovation” Ocado Technology is putting the world’s retailers online using the cloud, robotics, AI, and IoT. We develop the innovative software and systems that power Ocado.com, the world’s largest online-only grocery retailer as well as the global ‘Ocado Smart Platform’. With everything from websites to fully autonomous warehouse that we design in-house, our employees need to be specialists in a wide range of technologies to help drive our business. We champion a value-led culture to get our teams working at their very best and to help create a collaborative working environment that our people love. Core values of Trust, Autonomy, Craftsmanship, Collaboration and Learn Fast help drive our innovative culture . But don’t just take our word for it, have a look at what our people are saying about us on Glassdoor. What does the Data Platform team do? The primary objective of the Data Platform team is to research, design and maintain automated “Database As A Service” on our Infrastructure platform. We are designing solutions to enable our development teams to get resilient, high performance and production ready services to support their applications, while ensuring that we can scale these services out to multiple sites around the world in a fully automated way. You will be working with relational and NoSQL database technologies on both private and public cloud infrastructures, with a core focus on containerisation and Kubernetes. Moving towards an Operations As Code model, we want you to possess a passion for automation. You’ll enjoy being part of the team if you like: learning fast (through experimentation, self-motivation etc); being autonomous but able to collaborate (sharing knowledge is important to us); craftsmanship and innovation (we never stop questioning how we can be better). Please note that this position is a Fixed Term Contract. What will I be doing: Designing and maintaining services that allow the deployment and management of relational and NoSQL database technologies. Providing tools to effectively monitor, manage, alert on and performance tune Ocado's database estate. Establishing and implementing automated processes to ensure that we can seamlessly update and patch our databases to protect against vulnerabilities in accordance with Ocado's data security policies. Publishing documentation to provide smooth transition of database services from the build and development phase into production support. Providing advice, training and mentoring to development teams on issues relating to designing and building data solutions for their applications. Actively contributing to the process of continual improvement, with regard to self, team and systems. Root cause analysis and fix production issues as we strive to have no support requirement and want our infrastructure to self-heal Supporting production systems as required outside of standard working hours and participate in 24x7 on-call rota. What do I need to know: Extensive experience deploying and managing Postgres databases Exposure to containers and container orchestration systems such as Docker / K8s Experience in Python or Go or other languages Strong written and verbal communication skills Passion for open source technologies Comfortable adapting to change and learning quickly in a fast-paced environment Beneficial Experience using monitoring and alerting tools (e.g.Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty SNMP) Grasp of networking fundamentals Knowledge of SCRUM or other Agile methodologies Experience/understanding of supporting a 24x7 operation What we can offer you Our employee benefits are designed for you, we care about people and we’ve ensured we have a wealth of benefits that focus on your well-being. Within our flexible environment we can offer technically stretching work, a competitive salary and share schemes. Benefits include pension scheme, train season ticket loan (interest-free), free shuttle bus from Hatfield train station and of course, healthy Ocado retail staff discounts. We also have regular divisional socials, sports clubs not to mention the Ocado Technology Academy for a packed schedule of courses, conferences and events such as discussion sessions, conference briefs and external guest speakers. If you think you have what it takes to make a difference, please submit your application below. Due to the energising nature of Ocado's business, vacancy close dates, when stated, are indicative and may be subject to change so please apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. Please note: If you have applied and been rejected for this role in the last 6 months, or applied and been rejected for a role with a similar skill set, we will not re-evaluate you for this position. After 6 months, we will treat your application as a new one. Be bold, be unique, be brilliant, be you. We are looking for individuality and we value diversity above gender, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, disability or union participation. We are an equal opportunities employer and we are committed to treating all applicants and employees fairly and equally. This job was originally posted as www.cwjobs.co.uk/job/89849998