Cloud & Platform Database Administrator / Database Reliability Engineer (Ecommerce)
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VML Enterprise Solutions
Job Description
Who We Are
VML, part of WPP, is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and human first, award-winning work for blue chip client partners including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's. The agency is recognized by the Forrester Wave™ Reports, as a Leader among Marketing Creative and Content Service Providers, Commerce Services, Global Digital Experience Services, Global Marketing Services and, most recently, Marketing Measurement & Optimization. In addition, VML’s specialist health network, VML Health, is one of the world’s largest and most awarded health agencies. VML’s global network is powered by 26,000 talented people across 55+ markets, with principal offices in Kansas City, New York, Detroit, London, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney.
About WPP
WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.
The opportunity:
We're seeking a Cloud & Platform DBA/Database Reliability Engineer to operate, optimize and secure both managed and self‑managed databases that power high‑traffic ecommerce sites. You'll work primarily across AWS and GCP, while also supporting a smaller estate of hosted/on‑prem databases.
Your mission: high availability, performance, security/compliance and cost efficiency—especially during peak events.
What you’ll be doing:
Operate managed databases (cloud):
AWS RDS/Aurora (MySQL/PostgreSQL), DB2 .
Indexing, query plan analysis, schema design for OLTP, connection pool and concurrency tuning.
Build and support self managed databases (hosted/on prem/VMs):
IBM DB2 LUW 9.5–11.5, MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL on Linux/Unix/Windows.
Installation, patching, upgrades, parameter/kernel tuning, storage layout (e.g., ASM/LVM), backup/restore.
High availability, resilience and DR:
Cloud: Multi AZ, read replicas, Aurora Global Database, cross region replication, RDS Proxy; PITR/snapshots; tested RTO/RPO.
Self managed: DB2 HADR, MySQL replication, db2 backup utilities.
Support for prod and nonprod env, which require backup and restore along with obfuscation of the sensitive data.
skilled for writting sql/plsql code
Automation and change management:
Terraform/CloudFormation for cloud, Ansible for self managed, GitOps workflows.
CI/CD for database changes (Flyway/Liquibase), standards, drift detection, automated patching and failover.
Observability and performance engineering:
CloudWatch/Cloud Monitoring, RDS Performance Insights, pg_stat_statements, MySQL Performance Schema, DB2 MON/Explain, Datadog/New Relic/Prometheus/Grafana.
Capacity planning, load/soak testing for peak (e.g., BFCM), SLOs for latency/availability/throughput, post incident reviews.
Security, compliance and governance:
IAM least privilege, secrets management (AWS Secrets Manager ), audit logging.
PCI DSS and GDPR controls, data retention/masking, change control and approvals.
Cost and capacity stewardship:
Cloud: right sizing instances/storage/IOPS, reserved vs on demand/serverless choices, cost anomaly detection.
Self managed: capacity forecasting and scaling plans; basic license awareness for enterprise platforms.
Architecture collaboration:
Schema evolution, query patterns, read/write segregation.
Operations and ways of working:
Partner with development, support and architecture teams; maintain clear runbooks and documentation.
Participate in a 24/7 on call rotation; lead incident response and preventative actions.
Support and pl