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Salary: £70,000 - 80,000 per year
Requirements: Strong commercial experience administering production MariaDB or MySQL databases.Excellent understanding of database performance tuning, indexing and query optimisation.Experience designing and executing schema migration strategies.Knowledge of backup, recovery and disaster recovery best practices.Automation experience using SQL alongside Python or Bash scripting.Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively across engineering and technical teams.Desirable: PostgreSQL administration.Desirable: Containerised environments using Docker.Desirable: Event-driven architectures or messaging technologies such as RabbitMQ.Desirable: Experience supporting distributed or multi-site database deployments.Desirable: Background working within regulated, security-conscious or mission-critical environments.Applicants must be eligible to obtain UK Security Clearance. Responsibilities: Own the design, administration and ongoing optimisation of production MariaDB/MySQL databases.Develop and manage robust database schema migrations with safe deployment, validation and rollback processes.Monitor, analyse and optimise database performance in high-volume, write-intensive environments.Design and maintain backup, recovery and data retention strategies, regularly validating restore processes.Implement and maintain database security, permissions and audit controls.Create automation, monitoring and health-check tooling to improve operational efficiency and scalability.Collaborate with software developers to optimise queries, indexing strategies and data models.Support the wider engineering function by contributing to CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.Provide guidance on database architecture and best practice across development teams. Technologies: BashCI/CDDockerSupportMariaDBMySQLPostgreSQLPythonRabbitMQSQLSecurity More:
We are a hybrid employer based in Reading offering a permanent Database Administrator role supporting a mission-critical technology solution. You will join an innovative and collaborative engineering team focused on reliability, performance and automation, working on technically challenging, large-scale software products. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, regular collaboration from our Reading office, and long-term career development within a growing technology business.
last updated 31 week of 2026