Infrastructure DBA | Outside IR35 | £300 - £375 | 6 months | Hybrid Reading

We're partnered with an innovative company who are scaling their modern EPR platform into a fully cloud‑based SaaS solution. They're looking for an Infrastructure DBA to own performance, reliability and zero‑downtime delivery across a large, distributed, sharded database estate.

What You'll Be Doing
Monitoring and optimising distributed/sharded databases, shard allocations, replication health and overall performance
Tuning and maintaining MySQL (replication, VReplication, patching, performance)
Managing monitoring & alerting with Prometheus, Grafana and associated tooling
Overseeing backups, restores and DR (validations, dry‑runs, ongoing improvements)
Reviewing DBA updates, maintaining performance baselines and driving infra optimisation
Supporting data migrations, tenant/table loading and clinical dataset onboarding into SaaSWhat You'll Need
Proven experience with large sharded/distributed databases
Strong MySQL performance tuning expertise
Comfortable in Linux environmentsNice‑to‑Haves
Experience with VitessIf this is a role that suits your skillset, can work onsite 1 day per week and immediately available then please apply for the job advert directly or reach out to myself at (url removed).

Infrastructure DBA | Outside IR35 | £300 - £375 | 6 months | Hybrid Reading