Remote MySQL Architect & Database Lead

Partnerize; Newcastle upon Tyne; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Time Off Policy – take the休休离

Enhanced parental leave

Regular company events

Health & Welfare Benefits

401k Plan – 4% match

Wellness Program

Job summary

Partnerize is seeking a highly skilled Database Engineer to own and evolve our MySQL-based DB estate. You will manage day-to-day operations, backups and performance, while architecting secure Linux servers and handling deployments both on-premise and in the cloud.

You’ll mentor peers and drive automation and improvements across the database platform. You will collaborate with developers, product owners, and IT to ensure scalable, resilient data services, including disaster recovery and

Qualifications

• Advanced MySQL administration in production, on-premise or cloud.
• Independent ownership of large production DB infrastructure.
• Experience with replication, failovers, and DR plans.
• Knowledge of monitoring patterns and thresholds.
• Expertise in query tuning and schema optimisation.
• Proven ability to plan upgrades and migrations with automation.
• Security, encryption, access controls and backup practices.

Responsibilities

• Own daily database operations, backups, and performance tuning.
• Design, secure and maintain underlying Linux servers for DBs.
• Plan and deliver large DB upgrades and migrations.
• Provide technical leadership and act as escalation point.
• Lead automation of management and monitoring tasks.
• Collaborate with development and product teams on DB needs.
• Plan, estimate and support tasks using Jira, including out-of-hours.
• Mentor engineers to raise overall DBA knowledge.

Skills

MySQL Admin

Independence

HA & Replication

Monitoring

Performance Optimisation

Upgrades & Migrations

Database Security

Education

Tools

Ansible

Kubernetes

GitLab

Prometheus

Grafana

Jira

Confluence

Snowflake

Job description

Partnerize is seeking a highly skilled Database Engineer to own and evolve our MySQL-based DB estate. You will manage day-to-day operations, backups and performance, while architecting secure Linux servers and handling deployments both on-premise and in the cloud.

You’ll mentor peers and drive automation and improvements across the database platform. You will collaborate with developers, product owners, and IT to ensure scalable, resilient data services, including disaster recovery and