Database Administrator - MySQL/AWS - hybrid

MySQL DBA - a leading technology-driven organisation is seeking a hands-on, cloud-focused Database Administrator to take ownership of a high-volume AWS Aurora MySQL estate within a modern DevOps environment. This role is central to ensuring the stability, performance, and reliability of mission-critical transactional and reporting databases that underpin their business operations.

You will be managing database operations across Live and QA environments, overseeing backups, replication, failover readiness, and incident response. With a focus on performance optimisation, cost, data integrity, the role also involves supporting environment provisioning, data synchronisation, and troubleshooting issues impacting testing and production.

You will work closely with DevOps, QA, Development, and Data Platform teams, to provide guidance on schema design, query optimisation, and safe deployment practices, supporting integrations and event-driven data flows, and contribute to automation, monitoring improvements, and version upgrades.

Ideally you can demonstrate -

• Production experience with MySQL
• deep knowledge of Aurora (or similar managed platforms)
• DevOps workflows, including CI/CD
• Cloud infrastructure
• Experience in complex, high volume environments

This represents an opportunity to make a real visible impact on the reliability and scalability of core business systems within this globally recognised organisation as they continue their growth. Please contact me for a detailed conversation and full job spec - please note, this role requires two days per week in the office, only apply if this is something you are comfortable with.