MySQL Database Administrator

Madfish; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech firm in the UK is seeking a MySQL Database Administrator to manage a highly available database infrastructure. In this role, you will optimize performance and ensure reliability, working alongside DevOps and engineering teams. Candidates must have solid experience with MySQL and relational databases, as well as strong problem-solving skills. The position includes numerous opportunities for professional development and employee wellness programs.

Benefits

Health insurance

Employee wellness program

Career growth opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience with relational databases, such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, and NoSQL DBs.
• Knowledge of monitoring requirements.
• Comfortable working with collaborative tools and ticket tracking systems.

Responsibilities

• Manage and scale a highly available database infrastructure.
• Collaborate with engineers, DBAs, and DevOps teams.
• Maintain system monitoring of the database servers.

Skills

Experience with administering MySQL server

Basic performance, query, and index optimization

Good understanding of replication principles

Fast learner and creative thinker

Effective team member with problem-solving skills

Tools

Jira

Slack

Subversion

Job description

We are currently looking for a MySQL Database Administrator to join our partner company TENTENS Tech. In this role, you will manage and scale a highly available database infrastructure handling up to 2 PB of data and 100,000 operations per second. You’ll be responsible for database architecture decisions, performance optimization, and reliability improvements, while closely collaborating with DevOps, Security, and Software Engineering teams.

TENTENS Techis a Ukrainian IT company that develops platforms in the social discovery domain. The TENTENS Tech team has successfully launched dozens of platforms used by millions of people worldwide. Their slogan, “We don’t think limits,” reflects both the company’s strategic mindset and the team’s drive to always move far beyond the horizon.

Strategic challenges and objectives:

• Database health monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Work with massive amounts of data.

Key areas of responsibility:

• Collaborate with engineers, DBAs, and DevOps teams on technical issues.
• Provide support to developers and QAs as required.
• Maintain system monitoring of the database servers. Slow query reporting.
• Participate in database restructuring and management.
• Work on schema design and data modeling.

Technical requirements:

• Experience with administering MySQL server.
• Basic performance, query, and index optimization.
• Confident knowledge of MySQL backup solutions.
• Good understanding of monitoring requirements.
• Good understanding of replication principles.
• Comfortable with collaborative tools, such as Slack, wikis, Subversion, and basic ticket tracking systems (YouTrack, Jira).

Non-technical requirements:

• Fast learner and creative thinker with strong problem-solving skills.
• Effective team member with a high level of motivation and ability to work with little supervision.
• Dynamic self-starter with high attention to detail, highly responsible and reliable.
• The ideal candidate will be able to work from the office.

Desirable skills:

• Previous work experience with Python, Golang, Shell, or other programming languages.
• Previous work experience with relational databases, such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, and NoSQL DBs: MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, etc.
• Good understanding of load balancers, DNS, networking, and/or client-side drivers.

By choosing us you get:

• Opportunity to work with a multi-million audience.
• Career growth and professional development with various internal training and seminars, access to an extensive book library, chance to participate in key IT industry events worldwide (attending the conferences).
• Work in a great team. We pay special attention to the recruitment and development of talent. All the members of our team are young, active, and highly motivated for creative problem-solving.
• Employee wellness program, which includes running sessions, football, basketball, and other sports. The cost of sports activities is covered by the company. In-house doctor support is also available on demand.
• Health insurance is available for all employees.