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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Infrastructure Engineer, PostgreSQL - **Company:** Laravel - **Location:** London, UK (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** £76,072.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Backup Devices, Cloud Computing, Databases, Continuous Integration, Customer Data Management, Disaster Recovery, Domain Name System (DNS), Laravel, PostgreSQL, Linux System Administration, Networking Basics, Network Protocols, Octopus Deploy, Performance Tuning, Role-Based Access Control, Prometheus, Data Logging, Load Balancing, System Availability, Grafana, Caching, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Terraform - **Published:** August 11, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5836613345 ## About the Role * 7+ years of experience in software, platform, or infrastructure engineering, preferably working closely with large scale production systems. * Deep expertise with PostgreSQL in production: performance tuning, replication, backups and recovery, high availability, major version upgrades, and troubleshooting under pressure. * Mastery of AWS (or GCP), designing, deploying, and operating production cloud infrastructure. * Preferably, you have worked in large AWS environments, dealing with customer data in multi-account setups spread across multiple regions. * Experience with Kubernetes (K8s) and container orchestration, including production cluster operations, stateful workloads, storage, networking, RBAC, cluster upgrades, and troubleshooting. * Strong proficiency in Go, with experience building and maintaining K8s operators and controllers using tools such as Kubebuilder, controller-runtime, and the Operator SDK. * Strong Linux systems administration and networking fundamentals - network protocols, load balancing, caching, and DNS management. * Experienced and comfortable with using IaC in a team (Terraform preferred), enforcing sanity checks and policies to help us scale. * Experience with CI/CD and GitOps workflows, using tools such as Argo CD or Flux. * Experienced and opinionated about logging, monitoring, and alerting tooling and processes (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry). * Preferably, you have run PostgreSQL on Kubernetes with an operator such as CloudNativePG or Crunchy Postgres for Kubernetes. ## Description * Deploy, manage, and optimize PostgreSQL clusters on Kubernetes, owning high availability, performance, backups, and disaster recovery. * Develop, maintain, and enhance Kubernetes operators and controllers in Go to automate database and platform operations. * Design, build, and operate highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS across multiple accounts and regions. * Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, and automate the operational workflows that are still manual today. * Improve reliability, scalability, and security through monitoring, observability, and proactive capacity planning. * Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues across PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure. * Collaborate with engineering teams to improve developer experience, CI/CD pipelines, and platform automation. * Define and promote best practices for database operations, and mentor engineers as our PostgreSQL expertise grows around you. What success looks like * First 30 days: You understand our PostgreSQL platform, the surrounding infrastructure, our workloads, and where the operational pain actually is. * First 60 days: You have taken ownership of PostgreSQL operations and started improving reliability, monitoring, and automation. * First 90 days: You have delivered measurable improvements in performance, scalability, and operational maturity, and you are setting the long-term direction for the platform. * After 12 months: You are the owner and the expert for PostgreSQL at Laravel. 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