AWS DBA Engineering · Reapit London office ·

Reapit – Who are we?Reapit is the original end-to-end business technology provider for estate agencies of all sizes. We’ve been helping sales and lettings agents build relationships and grow their businesses for more than 25 years.

Our technology empowers property professionals across Europe, the Middle East, Australia, and New Zealand to work with buyers, sellers, tenants, and landlords to deliver a dream home experience.

Worldwide, over 78,000 agents across more than 15,000 branches use Reapit to run their businesses, manage properties, collect rent, engage clients, and provide outstanding customer service every time.

What you’ll be doing

Reporting to the Head of Technology we are looking for an experienced contract DBA to join our team and help optimise performance across a mission-critical, mature software platform. This is a hands-on role focused on diagnosing and fixing performance bottlenecks and improving schema design.

Analyse and optimise slow-running queries across a complex, highly used production database.

Review and improve indexing strategy, eliminating redundancy and ensuring coverage for critical workloads.

Work with engineering teams to implement pagination, caching strategies, and data access best practices.

Redesign and tune schemas where appropriate to improve scalability and maintainability.

Support and optimise the AWS RDS MySQL 5 ? 8 upgrade process, ensuring minimal downtime and performance gains.

Identify and eliminate resource bottlenecks, reducing unnecessary cloud consumption.

Create repeatable frameworks for query tuning and performance monitoring.

Collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure changes align with business priorities.

Document improvements and create guidelines for future maintainability.

Who we’re looking forAt Reapit, we prioritise hiring individuals who share our values and possess the right attitudes and behaviours for success.

Whilst all the listed qualities are desirable, don’t worry if you don’t meet all of them, we’d still like to hear from you.

An experienced DBA with deep expertise in AWS RDS and MySQL.

Proven track record of query optimisation, schema tuning, and indexing strategies in production environments.

Familiarity with cloud-native databases and performance optimisation in AWS environments.

Strong understanding of database monitoring, profiling, and troubleshooting tools.

Hands-on experience with database migrations and upgrades at scale.

Comfortable working with large, legacy codebases and finding pragmatic solutions.

Collaborative communicator able to work closely with engineers, product managers, and cloud ops teams.

Able to deliver measurable performance improvements in a short timeframe.

Contract-friendly mindset: autonomous, delivery-focused, and outcome-oriented.

What your impact and success looks likeAs a DBA, we expect your success and impact over the stages of your contract with us to look something like this:

Within 1 month:

Have a clear understanding of the database landscape, key bottlenecks, and query hotspots.

Deliver an audit report highlighting priority optimisations and quick wins.

Implement initial tuning of critical queries and indexes for immediate performance impact.

Build working relationships with engineers and key stakeholders.

Within 3 months:

Lead and complete the AWS RDS MySQL 5 ? 8

migration , ensuring smooth transition.

Optimise core query paths and schemas, delivering measurable improvements to user experience.

Establish monitoring and alerting to track ongoing performance.

Document best practices and provide knowledge transfer to engineering teams.

Within 6 months:

Achieve significant reduction in database-related cloud costs through tuning and optimisation.

Deliver a substantially faster, more reliable user experience for customers.

Leave a maintainable, scalable database environment that engineering teams can continue to evolve.

Provide final knowledge transfer and documentation to ensure long-term sustainability.

What’s in it for you?We operate a Flexible Working Policy and there is no expectation around in-person attendance, beyond occasional ad-hoc project meetings in our Solihull or London offices.

You can expect an industry competitive day rate, available on request.

Don’t tick all the boxes? Neither do weWe care about our industry and want it to become a more inclusive and diverse place to work. So, we’re driven by hiring not only by experience and relevance for the role but by sharing our values and the right attitudes and behaviours for success.

We are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity through attracting and retaining a complementary team of employees and building an inclusive environment for all.

We feel we have an empowering environment where everyone is supported and respected, and we want you to feel this too. We welcome new ideas, thinking and approaches, whilst listening to all our ..... full job details .....