Senior Database Engineer (MySQL) in Newcastle upon Tyne

Who We Are

At Partnerize, we’re on a mission to transform the way businesses grow. We’ve built the leading partnership automation platform that empowers brands to discover, engage, and convert their audiences at scale. From affiliate marketing to influencer collaborations, we help our clients build and manage profitable partnerships that drive real results. We’re a team of passionate problem‑solvers who are dedicated to helping our clients win in the ever‑evolving world of digital marketing.

Why Join Us

We’re looking for passionate, talented people who want to be part of a winning team. At Partnerize, you’ll find a culture of collaboration, innovation, and respect. We’re guided by our core values and are committed to creating an environment where everyone can do their best work. We also offer a competitive salary, generous benefits, and a flexible work environment that allows you to thrive personally and professionally. If you’re ready to grow your career and make a difference, we’d love to hear from you.

Job Overview

We are at a pivotal point in our tech progression. We’re looking to grow the technical estate, replace existing systems with new solutions, scale, and develop the platform. It’s an exciting time to join the team in this captivating period.

As a Lead Infrastructure Engineer at Partnerize, you will:

• Deliver coaching sessions to the team/individuals.
• Scope the work coming into the Infrastructure Solutions team and delegate to team members appropriately.
• Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large, distributed software applications.
• Produce detailed documentation on the system design with visual representation to support.
• Measure and optimise new implemented systems performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward.
• Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications.
• Improve reliability, quality, and time‑to‑market of our suite of software solutions.
• Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures.
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning.
• Work closely with development and tech teams ensuring technical issues and projects are correctly managed.
• Deliver large technical projects.
• Act as an escalation for other support teams within TechOps.
• Be responsible for continuous improvement, continuous delivery and continuous integration.
• Plan, prioritise, and estimate tasks using Jira.
• Mentor and guide junior team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning.
• Participate in the On‑Call Rotation.

Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Ideally 3‑5 years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) or DevOps Engineer role.
• Proficiency with containerization and orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Nomad, Helm, Docker).
• Expertise in deploying and managing services, with a solid grasp of best practices.
• Strong Python scripting skills and experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, YAML, Helm Charts, Terraform).
• Advanced experience with installing, configuring, and monitoring Linux systems in physical data centres.
• Understanding of modern event‑driven microservice architectures using systems like Kafka.
• Adapts to changing work environments, priorities and organisational needs.
• Enjoys working in a fast‑paced environment.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and coach team members.
• Ability to prioritise workload, including taking the lead on incidents and problem management.
• Experience in assessing work coming into the team and knowing when to delegate appropriately.
• Represent TechOps to the wider business and liaise with other departments.
• Advanced experience of managing and maintaining databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis).
• Proficient with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems and configuration management (Ansible, Docker, Git).
• Experience in designing, building and maintaining on‑prem private cloud solutions and external cloud providers, with a track record of maintaining a highly available network/system.
• Ability to troubleshoot, diagnose and solve issues independently, spotting and diagnosing problems, identifying areas for improvement and performance bottlenecks.
• Proven ability to create and maintain cohesive documentation as learning as experience is gained.
• Experience as part of a team maintaining a live production infrastructure, demonstrating active contribution to achieving team results.
• Ability to prioritise workload, including occasional incidents and RCA’s.
• Working experience with ITIL practices.

Desirable Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Openness to learn the required technologies.
• Interest in development, new technologies and innovation.
• Supporting development teams in refactoring technical debt.
• Experience with monitoring systems (Zabbix, Prometheus).
• Experience of Jira and Confluence.
• Load balancers (HAProxy).
• Nginx or web server technologies.
• Gluster or storage technologies.
• Elasticsearch technologies – especially Kibana.
• Experience with Apache Kafka and Druid.

UK Benefits & Perks

• 25 days holiday in addition to bank holidays.
• Enhanced Parental Leave: 6 months full pay for birth parent, 4 weeks non‑birth parent at full pay after one year employment.
• 5 extra ‘Partnerize Parental Days’ each year.
• Private Medical Insurance through Bupa.
• Enhanced pension contributions.
• Cycle to Work scheme.
• Eye Care Vouchers.
• Life Assurance.
• Enhanced Wellness Program including access to EAP, Wellness Coaching & Wellness Fridays programme.
• Regular company events and activities.

Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

We are committed to attracting, developing, and advancing our outstanding team members, regardless of race, ethnic identity, sexual orientation, religion, age, gender, gender identity, physical abilities, or any other dimension of diversity. We strive to foster an environment where people can be their authentic selves, raise concerns and innovate, all without fear; where they are treated fairly and respectfully, have equal access to opportunities and resources, and can contribute fully to the organisation’s success. Every individual in our business is expected to live this commitment without exception.

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