Database Engineer - £600 / Outside IR35 / Working from Home

PRO CONTRACT JOBS LIMITED/T.A.Pro Contract Direct; Greater London; On-site; GBP 95,755 - 125,644; Part time

Job summary

CTDI is seeking a Senior Database Engineer offering £600 per day for a minimum of 6 months. This role involves designing a customer account management solution and optimizing database infrastructure while working in a friendly and non-corporate environment.

You will collaborate with the DevOps team and be responsible for disaster recovery and database policies. Required skills include MySQL expertise, experience with AWS, and fluency in English. Remote work is fully supported, allowing flexibility.

Qualifications

• Expert in MySQL/SQL, database replication, and optimization.
• Experienced in disaster recovery protocols and Agile methodologies.
• Proven experience with performance and stress testing tools.

Responsibilities

• Design and engineer customer account management solution.
• Work alongside DevOps team to automate database infrastructure deployment.
• Implement policies for database backups, recovery, and replication.

Skills

MySQL/SQL expertise

DB replication

Disaster recovery protocols

Agile methodologies

AWS RDS Aurora

Performance testing tools

Concurrency and multithreading

Fluent in English

Tools

Jira

GIT

Job description

Database Engineer - £600 / Outside IR35 / Working from Home

Senior Database Engineer £600 per day (6 Months+ / Option of working from Remote / Outside IR35)

Greenfield project! Opportunity to design and engineer a customer account management solution using open standards that will sit at the heart of a new system for the transport industry. You will be working alongside a small dev and UX team in a, long established, non-corporate and friendly agency outside of IR35 with a flat organizational structure that doesn’t care about titles and hierarchy.

In addition to the design and build of the Database solution you will work with our DevOps team to automate database infrastructure deployment and deliver a fully redundant disaster tolerant system. You will be responsible for designing and implementing policies for backups, recovery and replication of database infrastructure. You will help the team to make datastore decisions in order to scale.

Location

• London, Bristol or Cornwall.
• Full option of working from remote.

Must Haves

• Expert in MySQL/SQL, DB replication, optimisation, Disaster recovery protocols
• Experienced in Agile methodologies
• Experience with AWS RDS Aurora or similar
• Experience with performance and stress testing tools
• Proven experience with concurrency, multithreading, and distributed system architectures
• UK based during the working week
• Fluent in English
• Experience of working in a mixed team of developers

Desirable / Nice to have

• Knowledge of NoSQL solutions
• Experience of working with Jira
• Experience of GIT
• Rail industry Experience