MUFG Investor Services
Financial Services
SeniorDatabaseReliabilityEngineer
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“Senior Database Reliability Engineer at MUFG Investor Services. Skills: Database Reliability Engineering, DevOps, SQL, AWS, Terraform, Automation, Observability, Infrastructure-as-Code. Provision and manage AWS RDS instances entirely through Terraform. Own database reliability — design runbooks, define SLOs, set up alerting”
What You'll Achieve.
mitigate risk; enhance efficiency; navigate the operational complexities of today’s investment management landscape
Industry & Context.
treat database provisioning, patching, and performance as an engineering problem; debugged a production slow query using EXPLAIN ANALYZE and fixed it; think 'how do automate this' before 'how do do this manually'
On-call rotation
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
SQL — complex queries, performance tuning, indexing, EXPLAIN plans, AWS — RDS Aurora, Secrets Manager, IAM, CloudWatch, VPC networking for databases, KMS encryption, Terraform — writing and maintaining modules, state management, remote backends, version pinning, Scripting — Python or Bash for automation, operational tooling, and migration scripts, CI/CD — GitLab CI or using pipelines for infrastructure changes and database migrations, Observability — experience with Datadog, CloudWatch, or Prometheus/Grafana for database metrics and alerting, Linux — comfortable with system-level troubleshooting in production environments
Nice to Have
PostgreSQL — deep knowledge: vacuuming, autovacuum tuning, replication (logical/streaming), pg_stat views, extensions, PgBouncer or RDS Proxy — connection pooling configuration and tuning, Kubernetes — understanding how workloads connect to databases, sidecar patterns, secrets injection, Database migrations — zero-downtime schema migrations with tools like Flyway, Liquibase, or custom scripted approaches, Financial services or regulated environments — familiarity with audit logging, data residency requirements, PCI DSS / SOC 2 controls, AWS Aurora Global Database — cross-region replication, disaster recovery patterns
What You'll Do.
Provision and manage AWS RDS instances entirely through Terraform
Own database reliability — design runbooks
Automate database operations — schema migrations
and patching via CI/CD pipelines
Improve performance — work with development teams on EXPLAIN ANALYZE
and connection pooling
Secure the data layer — enforce encryption
IAM database authentication
and least-privilege access patterns
Contribute to the platform — build reusable Terraform modules for database provisioning that application teams self-serve from the platform
Participate in on-call rotation — respond to database incidents
and implement permanent fixes to prevent recurrence
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
partner with application teams to ensure databases are correctly provisioned, optimised, and monitored; build reusable Terraform modules for database provisioning that application teams self-serve from the platform
Full Job Description
MUFG Investor Services is a trusted partner to many of the world’s largest public and private funds, providing asset servicing and operational solutions built for alternatives. With over $1 trillion in client assets under administration, we offer fund administration, banking, payments, fund financing, foreign exchange overlay, corporate and regulatory services, custody, business consulting, and more. Operating from 17 locations worldwide, we help clients mitigate risk, enhance efficiency, and navigate the operational complexities of today’s investment management landscape. As a division of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s largest financial institutions with approximately $3 trillion in assets, we combine deep expertise with the strength and stability of a leading financial institution. To learn more, visit us at [www.mufg-investorservices.com](http://www.mufg-investorservices.com). #LI-Hybrid We are looking for a Database Reliability Engineer to join our team. This is not a traditional DBA role — you are a DevOps engineer who happens to have deep SQL and database knowledge. You think in code, manage infrastructure via Terraform, and treat database provisioning, patching, and performance as an engineering problem — not a manual task. You will own the database infrastructure layer across our AWS environments: provisioning, scaling, observability, and reliability — all through Infrastructure-as-Code. Our current estate includes SQL Server running on Windows EC2 instances. You will partner with application teams to ensure databases are correctly provisioned, optimised, and monitored without becoming a gatekeeper. You Will: * Provision and manage AWS RDS instances entirely through Terraform — parameter groups, subnet groups, IAM authentication, secrets rotation, multi-AZ, and read replicas * Own database reliability — design runbooks, define SLOs, set up alerting on slow queries, connection pool saturation, replication lag, and disk growth * Auto
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