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The Lead DBA owns the architecture, operations and strategic direction of the database platforms. The role spans infrastructure, application and reliability engineering disciplines ensuring environments are secure, scalable and performant. The Lead DBA works closely with the Engineering Manager, architects and engineering teams to define standards, guide technical decisions and mentor the DBA team. This role is both strategic and hands-on delivering business-critical database services.
Job Responsibility:
Lead the design and maintenance of highly available, fault-tolerant database infrastructure
Plan for growth and scalability aligned with business and platform needs
Evaluate and integrate emerging database technologies to improve performance and efficiency
Ensure compliance with security, governance and regulatory requirements
Manage resource utilisation across storage, compute, memory and networking
Implement and validate replication, clustering and disaster recovery strategies
Apply patches, upgrades and security hardening
Monitor database health, capacity and performance proactively
Collaborate with developers to optimise schema design, indexing and queries
Support deployments, migrations and application-aligned changes
Maintain data integrity and resilience across all workloads
Troubleshoot complex database and application-facing issues
Build and maintain CI/CD and automation pipelines
Automate routine operations including backups, restores and patching
Identify and remediate platform risks and points of failure
Partner with DevOps, SRE and platform teams on operational maturity
Define and enforce operational standards and best practices
Mentor Senior and Junior DBAs
Drive continuous improvement across database operations and tooling
Requirements:
Strong experience across relational and non-relational platforms (MariaDB, MySQL, MongoDB, etc.)
Deep expertise in HA, replication, clustering and DR
Strong Linux administration and advanced scripting skills
Proven ability to solve complex performance issues
Strong understanding of security, compliance and governance
Experience leading teams and defining standards
Hands-on experience with CI/CD, automation and IaC (Ansible, Terraform)
Nice to have:
Experience with cloud or hybrid database platforms
Familiarity with modern observability tooling
Knowledge of sharding, partitioning and scale-out strategies
Experience supporting application performance and database integration
What we offer:
A competitive rate of pay and pension contribution ( £80,000 - £90,000)
Generous discretionary bonus schemes, incentives and competitions
An annual leave entitlement that increases with length of service
Access to an online GP 24/7, 365 days a year for you and your immediate family
Employee wellbeing support through our Employee Assistance Programme
Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Pay
Long Service Recognition
Access to a pay day savings scheme, financial coach and up to 40% of your earned wage ahead of payday, through Wagestream