Senior Database Administrator (DBA)Onbuy Limited • Bournemouth, England, United Kingdom
Senior Database Administrator (DBA)
Onbuy Limited
- Bournemouth, England, United Kingdom
- Bournemouth, England, United Kingdom
À propos
Responsibilities
Administer high‑availability Cloud SQL setups.
Perform performance tuning – indexing, partitioning, query optimisation, load balancing, and resource sizing.
Cost‑optimise Cloud SQL and BigQuery; manage lifecycle policies.
Troubleshoot performance and incidents; lead incident response and own MTTR, RCA, and continuous improvements.
Provide 2nd‑line DBA support, resolving escalated incidents and requests.
Backup, restore, and disaster recovery – author DR plans, run restore drills, validate backups, and enforce retention.
Security and compliance – manage IAM / ACLs, encryption, secrets management, access reviews, and audit logging.
Execute database upgrades and change management – plan upgrades, create rollback plans, and perform compatibility testing.
Automate processes using IaC (Terraform, Deployment Manager), CI/CD for schema and infra changes, runbooks, and automated remediation.
Capacity planning and forecasting growth.
Maintain monitoring and observability – dashboards, SLOs, logging, metrics, and actionable alerts.
Governance – tagging, quota controls, cost monitoring, and charge‑back recommendations.
Mentor and document – produce runbooks, knowledge bases, and coach engineers on best practices.
Vendor and third‑party management – oversee managed‑service support relationships and SLAs.
Qualifications
Extensive experience with Cloud SQL (MySQL) and BigQuery; strong knowledge of indexing, query plans, schema refactoring, and OLTP patterns.
Production experience with GCP.
Proficiency in scripting and IaC – Terraform, Ansible, Git, Bash.
Familiarity with tooling – Query Insights, SQL Diagnostic Manager, MySQL Workbench.
Experience with monitoring & logging – Cloud Monitoring, New Relic or equivalent, and database alerting strategy.
Solid understanding of security & compliance – IAM, VPC, encryption, secrets management, audit logging.
Operational expertise – HA/replication, backups, DR, change management, and on‑call experience.
Strong communication; documentation and runbook writing; stakeholder collaboration.
Experience with NoSQL and caching – Couchbase operations Memorystore/Redis.
Knowledge of data streaming/ETL – DataStream, Airbyte, ORM, Laravel.
Container and orchestration basics – Kubernetes.
Agile methodology experience – Scrum/Kanban; user story creation, estimation, prioritisation, Jira.
Benefits
Company equity.
25 days annual leave + bank holidays.
One extra day off for your birthday.
Employee Assistance Programme.
Access to the Perks at Work benefit platform.
Opportunities for career development and progression.
Pay range: £65,000‑£75,000, depending on experience.
OnBuy is an equal opportunities employer. We are dedicated to building a fair and transparent workforce and promote a recruitment process that does not discriminate on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnicity, religion, disability, or age.
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Compétences linguistiques
- English
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