MySQL DBA | £75,000 + Bonus | SAAS | Health Tech
hace 8 días
Wokingham
MySQL DBA Location - Wokingham (Hybrid working) Salary - £75,000 + Bonus, pension, healthcare, life assurance, 25 days holiday Large Sharded Databases | High Scale SaaS Platform I'm supporting a growing UK health tech organisation that is scaling a next generation clinical platform into a fully modern SaaS solution used 24/7 across the NHS. They are looking for a Senior MySQL DBA who loves solving performance challenges at scale and has deep experience working with large sharded MySQL environments. If you're a MySQL DBA who gets excited about high volume, high availability systems this is a role where your technical expertise genuinely makes a difference. The core requirement (what really matters) This role is all about two things: Expert level MySQL experience tuning, replication, scaling, performance engineering. Hands on experience managing large sharded databases understanding shard allocation, scatter/gather queries, and distributed performance. If you bring those two skills, you'll be a standout candidate. Everything else is a bonus. What you'll be doing • Owning the performance and reliability of large sharded MySQL databases in production., • Monitoring shard allocation, query behaviour, MySQL replication and overall DB health., • Ensuring high availability through zero downtime patching and robust DR processes., • Overseeing Prometheus/Grafana monitoring, alerting and dashboard optimisation., • Supporting data migrations, including PMI and patient data into the SaaS environment., • Providing performance insights across release cycles and improving infrastructure efficiency., • Strong background as a MySQL DBA., • Real world experience working with sharded MySQL databases., • Solid MySQL tuning and replication knowledge., • Experience working within Linux environments., • Vitess familiarity, • Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm or ArgoCD experience, • Elasticsearch or Graylog exposureThese are all plus points, not prerequisites. Who this suits A MySQL DBA who wants to work with serious scale, distributed systems and a modern engineering stack while contributing to technology that directly supports frontline healthcare.