At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage and optimise databases for critical financial technology systems.
- Company: Join a leading regulated financial technology firm in London.
- Benefits: Hybrid work model, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborate with engineering teams and explore cutting-edge database technologies.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on database performance and reliability in a dynamic environment.
- Qualifications: Strong experience with MySQL and PostgreSQL, plus a passion for database management.
The predicted salary is between 56700 - 69300 £ per year.
Company: Regulated financial technology, trading infrastructure, production systems.
Impact: Database reliability, performance, resilience, operational visibility.
Skills: MySQL, PostgreSQL, QuestDB, SQL, Linux, Grafana.
Hybrid: Minimum 3 days a week in the London office.
You’ll take ownership of a varied database estate that supports low-latency, business-critical financial technology. This is a hands-on DBA role where your work will directly affect the reliability, performance and resilience of production systems. You’ll support engineering and operations teams who rely on well-managed databases to keep regulated technology products running smoothly.
You’ll work across mature relational database tooling, while also getting exposure to newer and more specialist technologies including QuestDB, Dolt, Redis and Elasticsearch. You’ll be the person people come to when database performance, availability, access, backups, schema changes or query behaviour needs proper thought. Some days you’ll be tuning MySQL. Other days you’ll be helping developers make safer database changes, improving observability in Grafana, or testing restore procedures so recovery plans are more than just documentation.
You’ve worked as a DBA, or in a database-focused infrastructure or engineering role, in a production environment. You have strong MySQL experience, including installation, configuration, replication, performance tuning and user management. You’re comfortable with PostgreSQL concepts such as query planning, indexing, roles and connection management. You can write and optimise complex SQL for operational reporting, dashboards and troubleshooting. You’re comfortable working in Linux and using command-line tooling. You can explain database concepts clearly to developers, operations teams and non-specialist colleagues.
Experience with QuestDB, or an interest in high-performance time-series workloads. Exposure to Redis, Elasticsearch or version-controlled database systems such as Dolt. Experience in a regulated financial services or compliance-driven environment.
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