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 zeroȁ...