Remote Senior DBA - Scale SaaS DBs, Hybrid + Training

ByteHire; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 63,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare services

Cycle to Work

Pension plan

Life assurance

Employee assistance

Job summary

ByteHire is recruiting a Database Administrator to oversee production databases and drive architecture improvements. The role combines operational DB management with strategic enhancements in a SaaS, cloud-native setting.

Work involves collaborating with development and infrastructure teams in a hybrid environment, ensuring security, performance and reliability across multiple environments.

Qualifications

• Proven experience administering MySQL or MariaDB in production.
• Strong SQL optimisation, indexing, and query analysis skills.
• Experience with HA, replication, and disaster recovery planning.
• Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms.
• Experience with SaaS or cloud-native platforms.
• Ability to work in Agile software delivery teams.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain production database platforms across environments.
• Ensure databases are secure, resilient, and highly available.
• Plan and execute upgrades, maintenance, and backups.
• Monitor system health and resolve performance issues promptly.
• Optimise queries and indexing to improve app responsiveness.
• Collaborate with developers on database changes through the lifecycle.
• Support capacity planning and future architecture improvements.
• Produce technical documentation and contribute to standards
• Participate in incident investigations and root cause analysis.
• Contribute within Agile delivery teams.

Skills

MySQL / MariaDB administration

SQL optimisation & indexing

Schema design & data modelling

High availability & DR planning

Performance monitoring & observability

AWS / cloud platforms

Data warehousing / analytics databases

Backend development exposure (PHP)

Database security & encryption

Tools

Partitioning / sharding / replication

Caching / proxying

NoSQL / Graph / Time-series exposure

Job description

ByteHire is recruiting a Database Administrator to oversee production databases and drive architecture improvements. The role combines operational DB management with strategic enhancements in a SaaS, cloud-native setting.

Work involves collaborating with development and infrastructure teams in a hybrid environment, ensuring security, performance and reliability across multiple environments.