Database Administrator/DBA - PostgreSQL/MySQL

Job title: Database Administrator/DBA - PostgreSQL/MySQL

Client: FinTech

Salary: up to £90,000 + Bonus

Location: London

Skills: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Git

The role

My client are a growing FinTech organisation looking to add a talented DBA to their team.

You will take ownership of the extensive Database estate, coding day to day administration, reliability, design and support across a range of Database technologies.

Responsibilities

Main point of contact for Database technologies including administration, monitoring, high availability, performance and reliability

Database upgrades, patching and version migration

Design and implementation of backup and restore procedures including relevant documentation

Monitoring health, capacity, and performance, identifying bottlenecks

Reviewing schema changes alongside developers

Query optimisation, index design and access patterns

Collaborating with developers on integrations

Writing and optimising SQL queries for dashboards/reporting (Grafana etc.)

Managing permissions and privileges

Required experience

Hands on experience working as a DBA

Strong knowledge of MySQL

Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL or QuestDB

Backup and Restore strategies

Query planning, indexing strategies, connection management, role management

Able to write complex SQL queries for both production and reporting

Integrating database queries with dashboards such as Grafana or other Observability tooling

Version controlled/branching database systems (eg Dolt)

Familiarity with Redis/Elastic stack highly desirable

Comfortable with Linux environments and the command line

Please apply ASAP for more information.

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