Equals Money

Senior Database Administrator

Equals Money

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

LinuxMySQLPython

About the role

  • Monitor cluster health and alerts (CloudWatch / Performance Insights / slow-query), investigate anomalies and act on incidents.
  • Diagnose and optimise slow queries and problematic transactions: use EXPLAIN, rewrite queries, and add/remove indexes as needed.
  • Ensure backups, snapshots and PITR are configured and tested; maintain and exercise recovery/runbook procedures.
  • Perform capacity planning, sizing and maintenance (patches, minor version upgrades, failover drills) to keep performance and availability targets.
  • Automate routine checks and reports (index coverage, long-running queries, replica lag, space usage) and produce actionable recommendations for engineering teams.

Requirements

  • Strong practical experience with MySQL / Aurora MySQL administration at production scale (schema design, replication, failover).
  • Proven ability to profile and tune queries and indexes (EXPLAIN, slow-query analysis, query rewriting).
  • Solid knowledge of backup & recovery strategies for Aurora (snapshots, continuous backups/PITR) and tested restore experience.
  • Experience with monitoring and alerting for databases (CloudWatch, Performance Insights, slow-query logs) and acting on alarms.
  • Comfortable scripting/automation (Bash, Python, or similar) to build health checks, runbooks and operational tooling; good Linux fundamentals.
Benefits
  • A competitive salary benchmarked against a peer group.
  • 25 days holiday per year + your birthday off
  • Opportunities for progression, development and learning new skills - £250 towards the cost of learning & development.
  • Free onsite Nuffield Health gym & pool (London) and discounted gym membership elsewhere
  • GetActive with Aviva - Health and Wellbeing discounts on services and products
  • Interbank currency rates on travel money and international transfers.
  • Bupa Private Healthcare
  • Free Eye Test and £50 up to the cost of glasses
  • EAP Service - Mental Health Services
  • Life Assurance Policy - x3 annual salary
  • Contributory pension scheme
  • Cycle to Work Scheme
  • Season Ticket Loans
  • Enhanced Parental Policies
  • Complimentary tea, coffee, soft drinks and fruit

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Hard skills
MySQLAurora MySQLquery optimizationindex managementbackup and recoveryscriptingLinux fundamentalscapacity planningperformance tuningautomation