Senior Database Engineer

Sharp and Carter; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Sharp and Carter in Melbourne is seeking an experienced Senior Database Engineer / DBA to join our technology team. You’ll take ownership of a key database discovery piece and progress to ongoing optimization, reliability, migration and platform improvements.

The role features hybrid work, with 2 days per week in the Melbourne CBD office. A 12-month FTC with potential to become permanent is offered. Strong AWS and MySQL experience, plus SQL and data modelling skills, are essential.

Qualifications

• Strong AWS and MySQL experience.
• Background as a Senior DBA or Database Engineer.
• Strong SQL and database administration/engineering skills.
• Experience with legacy or complex databases.
• Exposure to data modelling, migration, lineage or database discovery.
• Strong communication and documentation skills.
• AWS Aurora MySQL experience highly regarded.
• Exposure to MongoDB, DynamoDB, S3, Kafka or PHP/Laravel is beneficial but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Work hands-on across AWS and MySQL/Aurora MySQL.
• Analyse and reverse-engineer complex database structures.
• Map schemas, relationships, dependencies and data flows.
• Create clear technical documentation and data models.
• Support database performance, reliability and optimisation.
• Contribute to future migration, archival and platform initiatives.
• Work with stakeholders to understand and document the environment.

Skills

Senior DBA

SQL

Data modelling

Documentation

Stakeholder comms

Tools

AWS

MySQL

Aurora MySQL

MongoDB

DynamoDB

S3

Kafka

PHP/Laravel

Job description

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Database Engineer / DBA with strong AWS and MySQL experience to join an established technology team.
Initially, you’ll take ownership of a key database discovery piece, getting under the hood of a complex legacy environment to understand how the data is structured, connected and used. From there, the role will broaden into ongoing database optimisation, reliability, migration and platform improvement work.
What you’ll be doing

• Work hands-on across AWS and MySQL/Aurora MySQL
• Analyse and reverse-engineer complex database structures
• Map schemas, relationships, dependencies and data flows
• Create clear technical documentation and data models
• Support database performance, reliability and optimisation
• Contribute to future migration, archival and platform initiatives
• Work with technical and business stakeholders to understand and document the environment

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Database Engineer / DBA with strong AWS and MySQL experience to join an established technology team.
Initially, you’ll take ownership of a key database discovery piece, getting under the hood of a complex legacy environment to understand how the data is structured, connected and used. From there, the role will broaden into ongoing database optimisation, reliability, migration and platform improvement work.
What you’ll be doing

• Work hands-on across AWS and MySQL/Aurora MySQL
• Analyse and reverse-engineer complex database structures
• Map schemas, relationships, dependencies and data flows
• Create clear technical documentation and data models
• Support database performance, reliability and optimisation
• Contribute to future migration, archival and platform initiatives
• Work with technical and business stakeholders to understand and document the environment

What we’re looking for

• Strong commercial AWS and MySQL experience
• Background as a Senior DBA, Database Engineer or similar
• Strong SQL and database administration/engineering skills
• Experience with complex or legacy database environments
• Exposure to data modelling, migration, lineage or database discovery
• Strong communication and documentation skills
• AWS Aurora MySQL experience highly regarded
• Exposure to MongoDB, DynamoDB, S3, Kafka or PHP/Laravel is beneficial but not essential.

Location: Melbourne CBD
Hybrid: 2 days per week in the office
Contract: 12-month FTC with potential to become permanent