Own the day-to-day operation, health, availability and continuous improvement of Toku's production MySQL databases running on AWS RDS
Take ownership of production incidents, perform troubleshooting and root cause analysis, restore service quickly
Identify repetitive operational work, evaluate where automation delivers the greatest value, and build scalable workflows and tooling
Improve how database changes, production data fixes and operational requests are managed
Partner closely with software engineers to understand application behaviour, investigate production issues, interpret logs
Monitor and optimise database performance through query tuning, indexing strategies, capacity planning and proactive performance analysis
Manage and continuously improve AWS database services, focusing on Amazon RDS
Utilise monitoring platforms to identify trends, troubleshoot production issues
Apply secure database practices, support audit readiness, and improve operational governance
Support and continuously improve high availability and disaster recovery capabilities
Participate in a shared on-call rotation, responding to production incidents outside normal business hours

5–8 years of hands-on experience operating production databases within AWS cloud environments
Strong practical experience with Amazon RDS
Strong production experience administering and optimising MySQL databases
Experience managing cloud-managed database services rather than traditional on-premise database infrastructure
Practical experience automating operational tasks using scripting languages such as Python, SQL or similar
Experience supporting business-critical production systems, participating in incident response, and operating within an on-call environment
Strong capability in query optimisation, indexing, performance troubleshooting and root cause analysis
Good understanding of AWS networking fundamentals, including security groups
Experience working closely alongside software engineering teams
Demonstrated ability to investigate unfamiliar production issues, learn independently, and develop practical solutions

Senior Cloud Database Engineer

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