MUFG Investor Services
Financial Services
SeniorDatabaseReliabilityEngineer
“Senior Database Reliability Engineer at MUFG Investor Services. Skills: Database Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure-as-Code, AWS, Terraform, SQL, Automation. Provision and manage AWS RDS instances entirely through Terraform. Own database reliability”
Industry & Context.
Debug 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
Set up alerting on slow queries
connection pool saturation
Automate database operations
Secure the data layer
Contribute to the platform by building reusable Terraform modules
Participate in on-call rotation
Respond to database incidents
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
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