Infrastructure DBA

Randstad UK
Sheffield, United Kingdom
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Compensation
£ 95K

Job location

Remote
Sheffield, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Software as a Service
Linux
Python
MySQL
Oracle
Performance Tuning
Prometheus
Grafana

Job description

  • 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
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Requirements

  • Proven experience with large sharded/distributed databases
  • Strong MySQL performance tuning expertise
  • Comfortable in Linux environments

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience with Vitess
  • Python for tooling, automation, or performance analysis

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