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Infrastructure DBA

Job in Reading, Berkshire, RG1, England, UK
Listing for: Opus Recruitment Solutions
Full Time, Part Time position
Listed on 2026-02-27
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Systems Engineer, Data Engineer, Cloud Computing
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 375 GBP Daily GBP 375.00 DAY
Job Description & How to Apply Below
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 SaaSWhat 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 (url removed).

Infrastructure DBA | Outside IR35 | £300 - £375 | 6 months | Hybrid Reading
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