Infrastructure DBA

Job description

Infrastructure DBA | Outside IR35 | £350 - £425 | 6 months | Remote

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
• Python for tooling, automation, or performance analysis

If this is a role that suits your skillset and immediately available then please apply for the job advert directly or reach out to myself at alex.howman@opusrs.com.

Infrastructure DBA | Outside IR35 | £350 - £425 | 6 months | Hybrid Reading

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

United Kingdom

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

01-03-2026

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English