About the job
Join SumUp as a Senior Database DevOps Engineer in Sofia, where you will be instrumental in developing and maintaining our Cloud Platform infrastructure, specifically tailored for database management that supports our development teams. Your role is crucial in ensuring the availability, performance, and security of our databases through automation and enhanced infrastructure code quality.
We seek a seasoned expert eager to safely shift database ownership "left" by implementing standardized automation and comprehensive guardrails. In collaboration with our Platform Infrastructure and Development teams, you will strive to lower costs, enhance self-service tooling, and actively engage in audits related to our database infrastructure.
About the Team
The DBOps team is part of SumUp's Platform tribe, responsible for the database infrastructure that supports payment and financial products for over 4 million businesses globally. Currently, the team is undergoing a significant transformation, migrating more than 80 legacy databases to Aurora PostgreSQL, establishing robust guardrails, and transitioning database ownership closer to the development teams that rely on it daily. Your contributions will be pivotal in this transition, bringing platform engineering discipline, automation-focused thinking, and database proficiency to a role where the impact resonates throughout the entire engineering organization.

