Remote Senior MySQL DBA & Technical Leader

Partnerize; City of Edinburgh; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Time Off Policy

401k Plan – 4% match

Health & Welfare Benefits

Job summary

Partnerize is seeking a highly skilled Database Engineer to own our database estate, lead BAU operations, backups, and performance tuning. You will be the principal technical authority within the Technical Operations team, interfacing with business, development, and IT functions.

You will design and secure the underlying servers for our databases, both on-prem and in the cloud, and partner with developers to improve deployment testability.

Qualifications

• Advanced MySQL administration in production environments (on-prem or cloud).
• Independent owner of large production database infrastructure in a SaaS setup.
• Experience configuring complex MySQL replication and disaster recovery plans.
• Knowledge of database monitoring patterns and performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Own daily database operations including backups, slow query resolution and tuning.
• Design, secure and maintain Linux servers underlying databases (on-prem/cloud).
• Plan and execute upgrades/migrations with minimal downtime; communicate business impact clearly.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership on database strategies.

Skills

MySQL admin

Linux admin

High availability

Replication

Monitoring

Performance tuning

Scripting

Security & encryption

Tools

Ansible

Kubernetes

GitLab

Prometheus/Grafana

Percona PMM

Job description

Partnerize is seeking a highly skilled Database Engineer to own our database estate, lead BAU operations, backups, and performance tuning. You will be the principal technical authority within the Technical Operations team, interfacing with business, development, and IT functions.

You will design and secure the underlying servers for our databases, both on-prem and in the cloud, and partner with developers to improve deployment testability.