Database Administrator/DBA - PostgreSQL/MySQL

Job title: Database Administrator/DBA - PostgreSQL/MySQL Client: FinTech Salary: up to £90,000 + Bonus Location: London Skills: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Git The role My client are a growing FinTech organisation looking to add a talented DBA to their team. You will take ownership of the extensive Database estate, coding day to day administration, reliability, design and support across a range of Database technologies. Responsibilities Main point of contact for Database technologies including administration, monitoring, high availability, performance and reliability Database upgrades, patching and version migration Design and implementation of backup and restore procedures including relevant documentation Monitoring health, capacity, and performance, identifying bottlenecks Reviewing schema changes alongside developers Query optimisation, index design and access patterns Collaborating with developers on integrations Writing and optimising SQL queries for dashboards/reporting (Grafana etc.) Managing permissions and privileges Required experience Hands on experience working as a DBA Strong knowledge of MySQL Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL or QuestDB Backup and Restore strategies Query planning, indexing strategies, connection management, role management Able to write complex SQL queries for both production and reporting Integrating database queries with dashboards such as Grafana or other Observability tooling Version controlled/branching database systems (eg Dolt) ..... full job details .....