MySQL DBA | £75,000 + Bonus | SAAS | Health Tech
- Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
- Wokingham, Berkshire
- 02/03/2026
Full time
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Job Description
MySQL DBA
Location - Wokingham (Hybrid working)
Salary - £75,000 + Bonus, pension, healthcare, life assurance, 25 days holiday
Large Sharded Databases | High Scale SaaS Platform
I'm supporting a growing UK health tech organisation that is scaling a next generation clinical platform into a fully modern SaaS solution used 24/7 across the NHS. They are looking for a Senior MySQL DBA who loves solving performance challenges at scale and has deep experience working with large sharded MySQL environments.
If you're a MySQL DBA who gets excited about high volume, high availability systems this is a role where your technical expertise genuinely makes a difference.
The core requirement (what really matters)
This role is all about two things:
Expert level MySQL experience
tuning, replication, scaling, performance engineering.
Hands on experience managing large sharded databases
understanding shard allocation, scatter/gather queries, and distributed performance.
If you bring those two skills, you'll be a standout candidate.
Everything else is a bonus.
What you'll be doing
What you need to bring
Must have (core):
Nice to have (not essential):
Who this suits
A MySQL DBA who wants to work with serious scale, distributed systems and a modern engineering stack while contributing to technology that directly supports frontline healthcare.
Location - Wokingham (Hybrid working)
Salary - £75,000 + Bonus, pension, healthcare, life assurance, 25 days holiday
Large Sharded Databases | High Scale SaaS Platform
I'm supporting a growing UK health tech organisation that is scaling a next generation clinical platform into a fully modern SaaS solution used 24/7 across the NHS. They are looking for a Senior MySQL DBA who loves solving performance challenges at scale and has deep experience working with large sharded MySQL environments.
If you're a MySQL DBA who gets excited about high volume, high availability systems this is a role where your technical expertise genuinely makes a difference.
The core requirement (what really matters)
This role is all about two things:
Expert level MySQL experience
tuning, replication, scaling, performance engineering.
Hands on experience managing large sharded databases
understanding shard allocation, scatter/gather queries, and distributed performance.
If you bring those two skills, you'll be a standout candidate.
Everything else is a bonus.
What you'll be doing
- Owning the performance and reliability of large sharded MySQL databases in production.
- Monitoring shard allocation, query behaviour, MySQL replication and overall DB health.
- Ensuring high availability through zero downtime patching and robust DR processes.
- Overseeing Prometheus/Grafana monitoring, alerting and dashboard optimisation.
- Supporting data migrations, including PMI and patient data into the SaaS environment.
- Providing performance insights across release cycles and improving infrastructure efficiency.
- Acting as the senior MySQL DBA voice within a highly technical engineering team.
What you need to bring
Must have (core):
- Strong background as a MySQL DBA.
- Real world experience working with sharded MySQL databases.
- Solid MySQL tuning and replication knowledge.
- Experience working within Linux environments.
- Good understanding of monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana).
Nice to have (not essential):
- Vitess familiarity
- Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm or ArgoCD experience
- Elasticsearch or Graylog exposure
Who this suits
A MySQL DBA who wants to work with serious scale, distributed systems and a modern engineering stack while contributing to technology that directly supports frontline healthcare.
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