Database Administrator (DBA)
Technify Talent Limited
Slough, UK
10 days ago
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Role details
Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Compensation
£30,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source
Tech stack
Bash Shell
Databases
Data Retention
Database Schema
Database Security
Disaster Recovery
Python (Programming Language)
PostgreSQL
MariaDB
Enterprise Messaging Systems
MySQL
Query Optimization
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RabbitMQ
SQL Databases
Database Optimization
Database Performance
Indexer
Event Driven Architecture
Deployment Automation
Docker
Job description
Working closely with software engineers, platform specialists and data teams, you’ll ensure the database layer remains secure, resilient and highly optimised while supporting the continued evolution of a growing product., * Own the design, administration and ongoing optimisation of production MariaDB/MySQL databases.
- Develop and manage robust database schema migrations with safe deployment, validation and rollback processes.
- Monitor, analyse and optimise database performance in high-volume, write-intensive environments.
- Design and maintain backup, recovery and data retention strategies, regularly validating restore processes.
- Implement and maintain database security, permissions and audit controls.
- Create automation, monitoring and health-check tooling to improve operational efficiency and scalability.
- Collaborate with software developers to optimise queries, indexing strategies and data models.
- Support the wider engineering function by contributing to CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.
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Requirements
- Strong commercial experience administering production MariaDB or MySQL databases.
- Excellent understanding of database performance tuning, indexing and query optimisation.
- Experience designing and executing schema migration strategies.
- Knowledge of backup, recovery and disaster recovery best practices.
- Automation experience using SQL alongside Python or Bash scripting.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively across engineering and technical teams.
Desirable Experience
- PostgreSQL administration.
- Containerised environments using Docker.
- Event-driven architectures or messaging technologies such as RabbitMQ.
- Experience supporting distributed or multi-site database deployments.
- Background working within regulated, security-conscious or mission-critical environments.
Benefits & conditions
Technify Talent Limited * Permanent * Reading, Reading, England, United Kingdom * £70k - £80k / year * 7h ago, * Hybrid working with regular collaboration from the Reading office.
- The opportunity to work on technically challenging, large-scale software products.
- A collaborative engineering culture focused on quality, innovation and continuous improvement.
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
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