Senior Database Engineer — Remote & High Availability

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

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Edinburgh office visit (1 day/month)

Pension plan

Healthcare

Training budget

Cycle to Work

Job summary

ByteHire is partnering with a growing SaaS business to recruit an experienced Database Administrator. You will oversee production MySQL/MariaDB environments, drive performance improvements, and influence data architecture across cloud-based platforms.

You\'ll work within Agile teams, ensuring security, high availability, and robust disaster recovery, with remote work flexibility and a once-a-month office visit in Edinburgh.

Qualifications

• Experience administering MySQL or MariaDB in production.
• Proficient schema design and relational modelling.
• Strong SQL optimization and indexing skills.
• Experience with high availability, replication, DR planning.
• Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms.
• Experience with data warehousing / analytical databases.
• Experience with NoSQL/graph/time-series databases.
• Experience supporting SaaS or cloud-native platforms.
• Exposure to PHP backend development is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain production database platforms across multiple environments.
• Ensure databases remain secure, resilient, and highly available.
• Plan and execute upgrades, maintenance activities, and backup strategies.
• Monitor system health and resolve performance issues before they impact users.
• Optimise SQL queries and indexing strategies to improve application responsiveness.
• Work with developers to review database changes throughout the software lifecycle.
• Support capacity planning and recommend improvements to future database architecture.
• Produce technical documentation and contribute to operational standards.
• Participate in incident investigation and root cause analysis.
• Working in Agile software delivery teams

Skills

MySQL / MariaDB administration

Schema design & data modelling

SQL optimisation & indexing

HA, replication & DR planning

Performance monitoring & observability

SaaS application support

Database security & encryption

AWS / cloud platforms

Data warehousing / analytics DBs

NoSQL / graph / time-series exposure

Backend development exposure (PHP)

Job description

ByteHire is partnering with a growing SaaS business to recruit an experienced Database Administrator. You will oversee production MySQL/MariaDB environments, drive performance improvements, and influence data architecture across cloud-based platforms.

You\'ll work within Agile teams, ensuring security, high availability, and robust disaster recovery, with remote work flexibility and a once-a-month office visit in Edinburgh.