Job Description
Infrastructure DBA | Outside IR35 | £300 - £375 | 6 months | Hybrid Reading
We’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 alex.howman@opusrs.com.
Infrastructure DBA | Outside IR35 | £300 - £375 | 6 months | Hybrid Reading