Senior Cloud Database Engineer

Ōu Pūkenga? - What will you bring?

To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following:

 

• Strong hands‑on experience with Cloud databases (e.g. Cloud Spanner, BigQuery) and relational databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL).
• Expertise in NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Redis, ElasticSearch)
• Experience in database migrations between on‑prem and cloud platforms.
• Proficiency in database backup/recovery, performance tuning, and security management.
• Experience in Terraform, Git, Codefresh, Python, and CI/CD pipelines for cloud infrastructure.
• Knowledge of ETL/ELT workflows and data integration patterns.
• Understanding of SRE principles (SLIs/SLOs, incident response, observability) and ability to define/measure DB‑focused SLIs
• Familiarity with observability tooling and centralized logging/tracing.
• Experience with data compliance and security tooling (IAM, encryption, auditing).
• Awareness of FinOps practices for data platforms (cost governance for BigQuery/Spanner and data pipelines).
• Interest or experience in AI‑driven database engineering (e.g., query tuning, anomaly detection, usage pattern analysis).
• Ability to influence technical practices within the team, with strong collaboration and stakeholder communication skills.

 

You’re not expected to have 100% of these skills. At ANZ, a growth mindset is at the heart of our culture, so if you have most of these things in your toolbox, we’d love to hear from you.