Database Administrator |Saas Platform For NHS | £50K To £75K + Bonus | Fully Remote

Opus Recruitment Solutions; Wokingham; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking an experienced DBA to manage large, sharded databases for a healthcare tech platform. This fully remote role involves collaborating with a team to ensure system performance and security. The ideal candidate has strong MySQL and Linux skills, and experience with monitoring tools. Benefits include a competitive salary of £50,000 to £75,000 plus bonuses, private health insurance, and flexible working hours.

Benefits

25 days of annual holiday

Private health insurance

Life insurance

Pension scheme

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a DBA managing large, sharded databases.
• Strong MySQL tuning skills and Linux environment experience.
• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting setups.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of performance, reliability, and security across large-scale databases.
• Support a healthcare tech platform with a modern EPR system.
• Collaborate with developers and sysadmins to ensure uptime.
• Perform hands-on DBA work with MySQL and Linux.
• Monitor systems with Prometheus and Grafana.
• Handle backup and disaster recovery testing.
• Execute zero-downtime patching.

Skills

Database management

MySQL tuning

Linux experience

Monitoring and alerting setups

Tools

Vitess

Kubernetes

Helm

Terraform

ArgoCD

Job description

Overview

DBA — Location: UK (Fully remote). Benefits: £50,000 to £75,000 + bonus, life insurance, health insurance, pension.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of performance, reliability, and security across large-scale, sharded databases in high-availability environments.
• Support a healthcare tech platform rolling out a modern EPR system as a SaaS offering to the NHS; contribute to scaling and transformation.
• Collaborate with a team of developers, testers, and sysadmins to ensure uptime and optimise smart architecture.
• Hands-on DBA work with MySQL, Vitess, and Linux in production (training provided if Vitess is new).
• Monitor systems with Prometheus and Grafana; manage shard allocation, replication tuning, and disk performance.
• Handle backup, restore, and disaster recovery testing; perform data migrations and custom table loads for NHS tenants.
• Execute zero-downtime patching and baseline performance assessments.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a DBA managing large, sharded databases.
• Strong MySQL tuning and Linux environment skills.
• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting setups.
• Bonus if you’ve worked with Vitess, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, or ArgoCD.

Benefits

• Salary: £50,000–£75,000 plus Bonus
• 25 days of annual holiday
• Vitality private health insurance
• Aviva life insurance – 3x annual salary
• Pension scheme with 4% employer contribution
• Town-centre offices in Wokingham
• Regular social events
• Flexible working hours