SQL DBA

Do you have strong DBA skills in MySQL or MS SQL? Are you looking for a role with autonomy and projects?

Superb opportunity to join a long-established, award-winning household name brand as a Database Administrator. This is a key permanent hire where you’ll take ownership of a complex on-premise database estate and play a central role in modernising their technology stack.

The focus is on the core MySQL database with some MS SQL in addition.

The Opportunity

This isn’t a “ticket-queue” DBA role, you’ll be joining a close-knit systems team as the trusted as the go-to database expert. Your work will directly impact high-volume, business-critical platforms, giving you real visibility and the chance to make a measurable difference from day one.

What’s on offer

• High-impact environment: Manage databases that power thousands of daily customer transactions.
• Tech modernisation: Hands-on involvement in major upgrades
• Autonomy: Scope to shape how performance tuning, replication, and HA are managed.
• Lifestyle benefits: Free daily lunch, heavily discounted products, cycle-to-work and EV leasing schemes, staff events, and long-service awards.
• Job Security: financially secure successful well established and highly ethical company

Key Responsibilities

• Performance tuning of MySQL databases across a large on-premise estate.
• Managing replication and HA, ensuring fast recovery and minimal downtime.
• Proactive monitoring and optimisation.
• Maintaining reliable backup and recovery procedures.
• Collaborating with developers, analysts and the wider IT team on schema design and deployments.
• Supporting infrastructure upgrades and patching programmes.

Candidate Profile

• Strong DBA in MySQL or MS SQL administration experience (performance tuning, HA, replication).
• Confident with Linux/Unix (Red Hat preferred).
• Comfortable in a busy on-premise environment.
• Familiarity with monitoring and backup tools.
• Desirable: SQL Server administration and storage optimisation experience.

Apply now for a confidential conversation. We’ll walk you through the details of the company, team culture and interview process, and help you present your experience in the strongest way.way.