Opus Recruitment Solutions
Infrastructure DBA
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This role is for an Infrastructure DBA with a 6-month contract, paying £300 - £375, hybrid in Reading. Key skills include MySQL performance tuning, managing distributed databases, and Linux proficiency. Experience with Vitess and cloud-based SaaS solutions is preferred.
🌎 - Country
United Kingdom
💱 - Currency
£ GBP
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💰 - Day rate
Unknown
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🗓️ - Date
March 1, 2026
🕒 - Duration
More than 6 months
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🏝️ - Location
Hybrid
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📄 - Contract
Outside IR35
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
Reading
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Cloud #DBA (Database Administrator) #Monitoring #MySQL #Replication #SaaS (Software as a Service) #Data Migration #Grafana #Prometheus #Linux #Databases #Migration
Role 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 .
Infrastructure DBA | Outside IR35 | £300 - £375 | 6 months | Hybrid Reading
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 .
Infrastructure DBA | Outside IR35 | £300 - £375 | 6 months | Hybrid Reading
