Database Administrator

Experteer Italy; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing SaaS company in London is looking for a Database Administrator to manage and optimize databases in a Cloud environment. You will work closely with agile teams to ensure data scalability and performance. The ideal candidate will have strong skills in MySQL and Linux, and experience with tools like Toad and MySQL Workbench. This full-time role offers opportunities for career development and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Private healthcare coverage

Flexible working options

Annual career development budget

Qualifications

• Strong experience in Database administration, recovery and tuning.
• Good technical knowledge on MySQL in administration, maintenance, tuning and troubleshooting.
• Excellent knowledge of Linux operating systems.

Responsibilities

• Cover best practices regarding Database management in a Cloud environment.
• Assist developers in designing and tuning databases and queries.
• Provide database analysis and design recommendations.

Skills

MySQL Server version 8.x

Database administration

Database tuning

PostgreSQL

ETL procedure implementations

Linux operating systems (RHEL / CentOS / Ubuntu)

Cloud AWS

Python

Tools

Toad

MySQL Workbench

SQL

Powershell

Bash

Job description

Job Description

Soldo is the proactive spend management solution that frees progressive businesses to accomplish more.

Over 25,000 organisations across 31 countries use Soldo to end slow, messy, and inefficient spending, bringing financial agility and control over every expense. Soldo frees finance with a uniquely proactive approach to managing decentralised spending.

By combining a powerful spend management platform, a user‑friendly app, and versatile payment methods, Soldo automates expense admin to eliminate inefficiency in managing business spending.

By proactively managing decentralised spend, organisations empower employees to spend when and where it's needed, keeping productivity high while avoiding month‑end surprises.

Founded in 2015 by Italian digital innovator Carlo Gualandri, Soldo is headquartered in London, with offices in Dublin, Milan, and Rome.

We’re looking for people with big ambitions, cool heads, sharp minds, and warm hearts. Come and join us as we grow together.

What's in it for you

• Competitive salary
• Private healthcare coverage for you and your family
• Lunch vouchers
• Genuine career development opportunities (we love to see you succeed) - including your own annual 500 career development budget
• Access to training and development - including a mentoring programme, workshops and the opportunity to progress onto our leadership programme
• Flexible working options including working from home or our Milan or Rome offices + 60 days’ work anywhere
• Statutory leave entitlements plus extra days off on Christmas Eve, New Year’s Eve and your Birthday
• Your own personal company Soldo card
• Employee Assistance Programme
• CAF Annual Fiscal & Financial Support

The role

The candidate plays a key role in covering the best practices regarding Database management in a Cloud environment, focusing on data scalability, performance and availability.

He will work closely with agile development teams, assist developers in designing and tuning databases and queries (Liquibase, Hibernate, SQL) and provide database analysis and design recommendations.

We are looking for someone who has strong experience in Database administration, recovery and tuning.

The candidate will be responsible for providing the best practices to the development team when dealing with the database.

Responsibilities and qualifications

• Good technical knowledge on MySQL (Server version 8.x), in administration, maintenance, tuning and troubleshooting.
• Good skills in the use of database managers such as Toad or MySQL workbench.
• Good knowledge of Postgreql will be a plus.
• Experience on ETL procedure implementations is welcome.
• Database installation and configuration.
• Database monitoring and tuning activities.
• Database backup and restore.
• Installation and configuration of Database replicas and clusters.
• Excellent knowledge of Linux operating systems, in particular RHEL / CentOS / Ubuntu Server.
• Complete control of the required tools to execute these tasks (SQL, Powershell, Bash).
• Minimum skills on Cloud AWS, Azure, Kubernetes / Containers and VMware are welcome.
• Knowledge of the following databases is also appreciated: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, CouchDB and Redis.
• Knowledge of coding and languages such as Python will be considered a plus.

Soft skills

• Good analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Result oriented.
• Team working / Team player.
• Time management.
• Change management.
• Communication.
• Fast learner.

Nice to Have

• RHCE/RHCSA
• MySQL 2019 Implementation Essentials 1Z0‑920
• MySQL 5.7 Database Administrator 1Z0‑888
• AWS Database Specialty

Job Information

• Date Opened: 30/09/2025
• Job Type: Full time
• Industry: SaaS
• City: Roma
• Country: Italy