Hybrid Lead DBA: Scale, Security & Automation

Morson Edge (Technology); Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Morson Edge (Technology) is seeking an experienced Lead DBA in Manchester to own database architecture, operations, and strategic direction. The role is hands-on with leadership responsibility for secure, scalable, highly available databases across critical systems.

Key focus areas include replication, clustering, disaster recovery, automation with CI/CD, and mentoring a team of DBAs while partnering with engineering, DevOps, and SRE teams to drive standards and platform growth.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a DBA team and setting strategic direction.
• Strong security, governance and compliance practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain resilient database infrastructure, ensuring high availability and performance.
• Implement replication, clustering and disaster recovery solutions.
• Drive automation with Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines.
• Mentor and lead a DBA team across production environments.
• Collaborate with engineering, DevOps, SRE and architecture teams to set standards.

Tools

MySQL

MariaDB

MongoDB

Linux administration

CI/CD tools

Job description

Morson Edge (Technology) is seeking an experienced Lead DBA in Manchester to own database architecture, operations, and strategic direction. The role is hands-on with leadership responsibility for secure, scalable, highly available databases across critical systems.

Key focus areas include replication, clustering, disaster recovery, automation with CI/CD, and mentoring a team of DBAs while partnering with engineering, DevOps, and SRE teams to drive standards and platform growth.