DevOps Engineer - Databases - Humankind

We are looking for a hands-on DevOps Engineer to join our Data team within the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) department. You will deploy, automate, and maintain databases — primarily on Kubernetes — serving 500+ developers across multiple environments.

This is a practical, engineering-heavy role. You will work daily with Kubernetes operators, Helm charts, Ansible playbooks, and CI/CD pipelines to keep databases running reliably at scale. If you have deployed and managed any database on Kubernetes (PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, MySQL, MongoDB — anything counts), and you enjoy solving real operational problems rather than just writing YAML, this role is for you.

You will join a small, focused team of experienced engineers and start contributing from day one. We value practical experience over theoretical knowledge.

• Deploy and manage database clusters using Kubernetes operators (e.g., CloudNativePG, ECK, or any equivalent operator you have worked with).

• Handle day-to-day database operations: provisioning, scaling, backups, failover, upgrades, and user management.

• Troubleshoot production issues across multiple database engines (PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, MySQL, Cassandra, ClickHouse, MongoDB).

• Write and maintain Ansible playbooks, Helm charts, and Terraform modules for database lifecycle management.

• Automate repetitive operational tasks: credential rotation, configuration drift detection, and backup verification.

• Integrate database services with GitOps workflows (ArgoCD) and secrets management (External Secrets Operator, OpenBao).

• Create operational runbooks and documentation for database procedures.

• Collaborate with other teams on monitoring, alerting, and access control for databases.