about 17 hours ago
London, United KingdomMid Level / Senior
Responsibilities
- Support the administration, monitoring, and reliability of production database systems.
- Ensure MySQL databases are configured, maintained, backed up, and monitored appropriately.
- Identify, investigate, and help tune problematic queries.
- Participate in database performance analysis, capacity planning, and operational readiness reviews.
- Support database-related incident response, including investigation, remediation, and follow-up actions.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve database usage patterns and query performance.
- Contribute to infrastructure-as-code workflows and automation for database operations.
- Maintain documentation, runbooks, operational procedures, and knowledge-sharing materials.
- Work with security and compliance teams to support customer and regulatory requirements.
- Support public safety deployments in a secure and reliable manner.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of professional experience administering MySQL or similar relational databases in production environments.
- Experience supporting cloud-hosted database systems, preferably AWS RDS, Aurora, or Azure database services.
- Familiarity with database monitoring, alerting, backup, recovery, replication, and performance tuning.
- Experience troubleshooting database issues in production environments.
- Comfort working with infrastructure-as-code tools and automated operational workflows.
- A working understanding of cloud infrastructure, networking, security, and access controls.
- Ability to collaborate with software engineers to improve query performance and database design.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- A high degree of ownership, attention to detail, and operational discipline.
- Eligibility and willingness to complete UK police vetting requirements for customer-facing public safety work.