DBA – SaaS Platform Supporting
Location: Wokingham - Hybrid (2 days a week onsite 3 from home) parking onsite
Benefits - £50,000 to £75,000 + Bonus, Life insurance, Health Insurance, Pension
If you're a DBA who thrives in high-availability environments and knows what it means to keep mission-critical systems running 24/7this one’s for you.
We’re supporting a healthcare tech platform rolling out a modern EPR system as a SaaS offering to the NHS, and they’re looking for an experienced DBA to help scale and support this transformation.
You’ll join a collaborative team of developers, testers, and sysadmins, and take ownership of performance, reliability, and security across large-scale, sharded databases. This is a hands-on DBA role where your work directly impacts NHS services—so uptime, optimisation, and smart architecture are key.
What You’ll Be Working With:
MySQL, Vitess, and Linux in production (Dont worry if you haven't worked with Vitess)
Monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana
Shard allocation, replication tuning, disk performance
Backup, restore, and DR testing
Data migrations and custom table loads for NHS tenants
Zero-downtime patching and performance baselining
What You’ll Bring:
Proven experience as a DBA managing large, sharded databases
Strong MySQL tuning and Linux environment skills
Familiarity with monitoring and alerting setups
Bonus if you’ve worked with Vitess, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, or ArgoCD
Benefits:
Bonus
25 days of annual holiday
Vitality Healthcare – private health insurance
Aviva Life Insurance – 3x your annual salary
Pension scheme with 4% employer contribution
Town-centre offices in Wokingham
Regular social events to connect and unwind
Flexible working hours to suit your lifestyle
If you're a DBA who loves solving real-world problems, building resilient systems, and making a meaningful impact, this is your kind of role.
Apply now or reach out for a chat. Let’s talk