Database Administrator

We're working with a well-known consumer brand that is looking for a hands‑on Database Administrator to join its technology team.

This is a great opportunity for someone with a few years' DBA experience who wants to take on more ownership in a modern cloud‑based environment. The role is focused on supporting and improving a business‑critical AWS Aurora MySQL estate, with exposure to SaaS database services, reporting databases, data lake platforms and wider cloud tooling.

You'll help manage and support a high‑volume MySQL database environment, ensuring systems are stable, reliable and performing well. This will include monitoring database health, investigating performance issues, supporting backups and recovery processes, checking replication, resolving data‑related issues and helping maintain reliable Live and QA environments.

You’ll also work with development and platform teams to support safe database changes, improve queries, maintain operational processes and contribute to continuous improvements across the database estate.

• MySQL or similar relational databases
• Performance tuning, query optimisation and troubleshooting
• Backups, recovery, replication or high availability
• Supporting production environments
• Monitoring, incident resolution and data integrity
• AWS, Aurora, RDS or other managed database services would be useful

Exposure to any of the following would be helpful, but not essential: AWS, Cloud Watch, Performance Insights, Terraform, Ansible, Rundeck, MSSQL, data lakes, CDC tooling or event‑driven systems.

If you're a DBA, Database Engineer or technically strong support/application engineer with good database experience, this could be a very good next step.