Senior MySQL Engineer & Architect - HA, Cloud, Automation

NTT DATA, Inc.; Hove; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA, Inc. in the United Kingdom seeks a MySQL engineer, specialist or architect to support enterprise MySQL environments across on-premises, hosted and cloud platforms. The role ensures database availability, performance, security and recoverability.

You will monitor databases, resolve incidents, perform upgrades, implement backups, and optimize queries while maintaining security and access controls. Senior levels involve leading investigations and defining architecture patterns.

Qualifications

• Experience in MySQL administration, replication, backup and recovery.
• Ability to optimize queries for performance and efficiency.
• Knowledge of database security and access controls, plus cloud-hosted MySQL services.
• Familiarity with Linux environments and scripting for automation.

Responsibilities

• Monitor MySQL databases, replication, jobs, storage and capacity.
• Resolve database incidents and service requests.
• Perform installation, configuration, patching and version upgrades.
• Administer backup, restore and recovery processes.
• Configure and support replication, clustering and high availability.
• Analyse and optimise queries and database performance.
• Maintain user access, permissions, encryption and auditing controls.
• Support migrations between platforms or hosting models.
• Develop scripts and automation for operational database management.
• Participate in resilience and disaster-recovery testing.
• At senior levels, lead complex performance, corrosion and recovery investigations.
• At L5, define architecture patterns, standards and lifecycle roadmaps.

Skills

MySQL Admin

Replication

High Availability

Backup & Recovery

Query Optimization

Database Security

Linux OS

Cloud MySQL Services

Automation Scripts

Education

Oracle MySQL certification

Linux certification

Cloud certifications (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Job description

NTT DATA, Inc. in the United Kingdom seeks a MySQL engineer, specialist or architect to support enterprise MySQL environments across on-premises, hosted and cloud platforms. The role ensures database availability, performance, security and recoverability.

You will monitor databases, resolve incidents, perform upgrades, implement backups, and optimize queries while maintaining security and access controls. Senior levels involve leading investigations and defining architecture patterns.