DBA | SaaS Platform Supporting NHS | £50k to £75k + Bonus | Hybrid
Wokingham, United Kingdom
Permanent
£50000 - £75000 per annum
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:
1. MySQL, Vitess, and Linux in production (Dont worry if you haven't worked with Vitess)
2. Monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana
3. Shard allocation, replication tuning, disk performance
4. Backup, restore, and DR testing
5. Data migrations and custom table loads for NHS tenants
6. Zero-downtime patching and performance baselining
What You’ll Bring:
7. Proven experience as a DBA managing large, sharded databases
8. Strong MySQL tuning and Linux environment skills
9. Familiarity with monitoring and alerting setups
10. Bonus if you’ve worked with Vitess, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, or ArgoCD
Benefits:
11. Bonus
12. 25 days of annual holiday
13. Vitality Healthcare – private health insurance
14. Aviva Life Insurance – 3x your annual salary
15. Pension scheme with 4% employer contribution
16. Town-centre offices in Wokingham
17. Regular social events to connect and unwind
18. 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.