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Infrastructure DBA

Infrastructure DBA

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Reading, United kingdom

£ 375 /day

Freelance

27-02-2026

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Skills

MySQL Monitoring Linux Databases Prometheus Grafana

Job Specifications

Infrastructure DBA | Outside IR35 | £300 - £375 | 6 months | Hybrid Reading

We're partnered with an innovative company who are scaling their modern EPR platform into a fully cloud based SaaS solution. They're looking for an Infrastructure DBA to own performance, reliability and zero downtime delivery across a large, distributed, sharded database estate.

What You'll Be Doing
Monitoring and optimising distributed/sharded databases, shard allocations, replication health and overall performance
Tuning and maintaining MySQL (replication, VReplication, patching, performance)
Managing monitoring & alerting with Prometheus, Grafana and associated tooling
Overseeing backups, restores and DR (validations, dry runs, ongoing improvements)
Reviewing DBA updates, maintaining performance baselines and driving infra optimisation
Supporting data migrations, tenant/table loading and clinical dataset onboarding into SaaSWhat You'll Need
Proven experience with large sharded/distributed databases
Strong MySQL performance tuning expertise
Comfortable in Linux environmentsNice to Haves
Experience with VitessIf this is a role that suits your skillset, can work onsite 1 day per week and immediately available then please apply for the job advert directly or reach out to myself at (see below)

Infrastructure DBA | Outside IR35 | £300 - £375 | 6 months | Hybrid Reading

About the Company

When it comes to technology talent, Opus Recruitment Solutions are the specialists. We provide the skills needed most to markets at the forefront of change, evolving with the ever-changing needs of our clients to propel their people strategy and build world-class teams to power the future. With a global reach, diverse networks and an established market reputation, we are the partner of choice for organisations looking for flexible and trusted technology talent solutions to achieve long-term success. Our clients work acros... Know more