Lead Remote MySQL DB Engineer

Partnerize; Southampton; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible time off

Enhanced parental leave

Company events

Health benefits

401k match

Wellness program

Job summary

Partnerize in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to own our MySQL estate, lead upgrades, and ensure 24/7 availability across on‑prem and cloud deployments. You will design, secure, and maintain the underlying servers, while hands‑on BAU tasks keep the system healthy.

You’ll collaborate with development, product, and IT, mentor engineers, and plan complex migrations with minimal downtime.

Qualifications

• Advanced administration of MySQL in production environments (on‑premise or cloud).
• Strong Linux system administration and networking awareness to independently support servers.
• Experience with high availability and complex replication (GTID, multi‑master).
• Experience automating upgrades or migrations with minimal downtime, using Python/Bash.
• Ability to design, secure, and maintain the underlying servers for distributed databases.

Responsibilities

• Take complete ownership of daily database operations and backups.
• Design, secure, and maintain Linux servers running database workloads.
• Plan and deliver large migrations and upgrades with clear execution plans.
• Act as escalation point for database issues and mentor other engineers.
• Automate management/monitoring of the database platform infrastructure.
• Collaborate with development, product, and IT to meet database needs.

Skills

MySQL admin

Linux admin

Networking

Replication

Monitoring

Query optimization

Scripting (Python/Bash)

Security & backups

Tools

Ansible

Kubernetes

GitLab

Jira

Confluence

PMM/Monitoring tools

Job description

Partnerize in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to own our MySQL estate, lead upgrades, and ensure 24/7 availability across on‑prem and cloud deployments. You will design, secure, and maintain the underlying servers, while hands‑on BAU tasks keep the system healthy.

You’ll collaborate with development, product, and IT, mentor engineers, and plan complex migrations with minimal downtime.