Infrastructure DBA

Infrastructure DBA Outside IR35 £300 - £375 6 months Hybrid ReadingWe're partnered with an innovative company who are scaling their modern EPR platform into a fully cloud-based SaaS solution. They're looking for an Infrastructure DBA to own performance, reliability and zero-downtime delivery across a large, distributed, sharded database estate.What You'll Be Doing

• Monitoring and optimising distributed/sharded databases, shard allocations, replication health and overall performance
• Tuning and maintaining MySQL (replication, VReplication, patching, performance)
• Managing monitoring & alerting with Prometheus, Grafana and associated tooling
• Overseeing backups, restores and DR (validations, dry-runs, ongoing improvements)
• Reviewing DBA updates, maintaining performance baselines and driving infra optimisation
• Supporting data migrations, tenant/table loading and clinical dataset onboarding into SaaS

What You'll Need

• Proven experience with large sharded/distributed databases
• Strong MySQL performance tuning expertise
• Comfortable in Linux environments

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with Vitess

If this is a role that suits your skillset, can work onsite 1 day per week and immediately available then please apply for the job advert directly or reach out to myself at .Infrastructure DBA Outside IR35 £300 - £375 6 months Hybrid Reading