Senior DBA – Hands-On, Low-Latency Production DBs

Ocean Red; Greater London; In loco; GBP 90.000 - 120.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Ocean Red is seeking a hands-on Associate Director DBA to own a diverse database estate behind latency‑sensitive, regulated production systems. You will be responsible for reliability, performance and resilience, with autonomy while collaborating with engineers and operators who rely on these systems.

You will manage MySQL tuning, replication, and user access, contribute to safer schema changes, and drive backups, PITR testing and operational visibility through Grafana.

Competenze

• Must have worked as a DBA in production where uptime mattered.
• Strong MySQL skills in installation, replication, and tuning.
• Proficiency with PostgreSQL concepts including query planning and indexing.
• Fluent in Linux and command-line tooling.
• Able to explain database behaviour clearly to non-specialists.

Mansioni

• Own the database estate for latency-sensitive financial products.
• Tune MySQL including replication and user management.
• Advise on safer schema and query changes before production.
• Develop backup/restore strategies including PITR and test restores.
• Improve operational visibility via Grafana and alerting.
• Handle complex SQL for reporting and troubleshooting.

Conoscenze

MySQL tuning

Replication

User management

PostgreSQL concepts

Linux CLI

Performance tuning

Query planning

Strumenti

Grafana

QuestDB

Dolt

Redis

Elasticsearch

Descrizione del lavoro

Ocean Red is seeking a hands-on Associate Director DBA to own a diverse database estate behind latency‑sensitive, regulated production systems. You will be responsible for reliability, performance and resilience, with autonomy while collaborating with engineers and operators who rely on these systems.

You will manage MySQL tuning, replication, and user access, contribute to safer schema changes, and drive backups, PITR testing and operational visibility through Grafana.