Database Administrator

• Day-to-day management and optimisation of our MySQL databases within a Galera cluster and AWS environments.
• Managing and optimising query workloads to ensure performance.
• Collaborating closely with our DevOps and SRE teams to ensure database performance and reliability.
• Implementing best practices for database management, including backup, recovery, and high availability.
• Establishing and maintaining observability standards for database performance metrics, including SLI/SLO/Error Budgets.
• Continuously evolving our database monitoring and observability tools for comprehensive coverage.
• Driving database technology change to support regional deployments.
• Utilising a code-first approach for database changes to minimise manual intervention.
• Advocating for a strong focus on database availability, reliability, and uptime.
• Liaising with Engineering teams to evolve database metrics and performance indicators.
• Working towards planned Roadmap goals.
• Actively participating in daily stand-ups and ensuring alignment with project sprints.
• Maintaining up-to-date documentation in our JIRA & Confluence tools.
• Participating in incident management processes.
• Acting as a key point of contact during database-related incidents and outages.
• Ensuring cost efficiency in database operations and resource utilisation.
• Fostering collaboration across teams to enhance database solutions and practices.
• Communicating effectively with stakeholders regarding database needs.

MySQL Database Administrator

Database Administrator

Lead Database Administrator

Oracle Database Administrator

SQL Database Administrator

Senior Database Administrator, DBA