Senior Database Engineer; MySQL

Who We Are

At Partnerize, we’re on a mission to transform the way businesses grow. We’ve built the leading partnership automation platform that empowers brands to discover, engage, and convert their audiences m affiliate marketing to influencer collaborations, we help our clients build and manage profitable partnerships that drive real results. We’re a team of passionate problem‑solvers who are dedicated to helping our clients win in the ever‑evolving world of digital marketing.

We’re looking for passionate, talented people who want to be part of a winning team. At Partnerize, you’ll find a culture of collaboration, innovation, and respect. We’re guided by our core values and are committed to creating an environment where everyone can do their best work. We also offer a competitive salary, generous benefits, and a flexible work environment that allows you to thrive personally and professionally.

If you’re ready to grow your career and make a difference, we’d love to hear from you.

We are at a pivotal point in our tech progression. We’re looking to grow the technical estate, replace existing systems with new solutions, scale, and develop the platform. It’s an exciting time to join the team in this captivating period.

• Deliver coaching sessions to the team/individuals
• Scope the work coming into the Infrastructure Solutions team and delegate to team members appropriately.
• Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large, distributed software applications
• Produce detailed documentation on the system design with visual representation to support.
• Measure and optimise new implemented systems performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward.
• Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications
• Improve reliability, quality, and time‑to‑market of our suite of software solutions
• Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
• Work closely with development and tech teams ensuring technical issues and projects are correctly managed.
• Deliver large technical projects
• Act as an escalation for other support teams within Tech Ops
• Be responsible for continuous improvement, continuous delivery and continuous integration.
• Plan, prioritise, and estimate tasks using Jira.
• Mentor and guide junior team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning.
• Participate in the On‑Call Rotation.

• Ideally 3‑5 years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) or Dev Ops Engineer role.
• Proficiency with containerization and orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Nomad, Helm, Docker).
• Expertise in deploying and managing services, with a solid grasp of best practices.
• Strong Python scripting skills and experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, YAML, Helm Charts, Terraform).
• Advanced experience with installing, configuring, and monitoring Linux systems in physical data centres.
• Understanding of modern event‑driven microservice architectures using systems like Kafka.
• Adapts to changing work environments, priorities and organisational needs.
• Enjoys working in a fast‑paced environment.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and coach team members.
• Ability to prioritise workload, including taking the lead on incidents and problem management.
• Experience in assessing work coming into the team and knowing when to delegate appropriately.
• Represent Tech Ops to the wider business and liaise with other departments.
• Advanced experience of managing and maintaining databases (MySQL, Postgre
  
  SQL, Redis).
• Proficient with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems and configuration management (Ansible, Docker, Git).
• Experience in designing, building and maintaining on‑prem private cloud solutions and external cloud providers, with a track record of maintaining a highly available network/system.
• Ability to troubleshoot, diagnose and solve issues independently, spotting and diagnosing problems, identifying areas for improvement and performance bottlenecks.
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