DBA (PostgreSQL/MySQL) – Performance & HA

Hunter Bond; Greater London; On-site; GBP 81,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Job summary

Hunter Bond seeks a seasoned Database Administrator to own the PostgreSQL and MySQL estate for a growing FinTech client in London. You will manage administration, monitoring, high availability, and performance across multiple database technologies, while coordinating with developers on schema changes and data integrations.

The role requires hands-on DBA expertise, strong SQL skills, and experience with dashboards such as Grafana.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience as a DBA.
• Strong knowledge of MySQL.
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL or QuestDB.
• Backup and Restore strategies; query planning and indexing.
• Able to write complex SQL queries for production and reporting.
• Integrating database queries with dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Primary point of contact for database technologies including administration, monitoring, high availability and performance.
• Database upgrades, patching and version migrations.
• Design and implement backup and restore procedures with documentation.
• Monitor health, capacity, and performance; identify bottlenecks.
• Review schema changes with developers and optimize queries.
• Collaborate with developers on integrations and data flows.
• Write and optimise SQL queries for dashboards/reports (Grafana).
• Manage permissions and privileges.

Skills

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Tools

Grafana

Redis

Elastic Stack

Job description

Hunter Bond seeks a seasoned Database Administrator to own the PostgreSQL and MySQL estate for a growing FinTech client in London. You will manage administration, monitoring, high availability, and performance across multiple database technologies, while coordinating with developers on schema changes and data integrations.

The role requires hands-on DBA expertise, strong SQL skills, and experience with dashboards such as Grafana.