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Date Added: Sat 28/02/2026

Infrastructure DBA

Reading, UK
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Company: OPUS RECRUITMENT SOLUTIONS LTD

Job Type: Permanent, FullTime

Salary: £300 - £375 per day

Infrastructure DBA | Outside IR35 | £300 - £375 | 6 months | Hybrid ReadingWe’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 SaaS
What You’ll Need
  • Proven experience with large sharded/distributed databases
  • Strong MySQL performance tuning expertise
  • Comfortable in Linux environments
Nice-to-Haves
  • Experience with Vitess
If 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 .Infrastructure DBA | Outside IR35 | £300 - £375 | 6 months | Hybrid Reading
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