DBA SaaS Platform Supporting NHS £50k to £75k + Bonus Hybrid

Overview

DBA - SaaS Platform Supporting

Location: Wokingham - Hybrid (2 days a week onsite 3 from home) parking onsite

Benefits - £50,000 to £75,000 + Bonus, Life insurance, Health Insurance, Pension

If you're a DBA who thrives in high-availability environments and knows what it means to keep mission-critical systems running 24/7this one's for you.

We're supporting a healthcare tech platform rolling out a modern EPR system as a SaaS offering to the NHS, and they're looking for an experienced DBA to help scale and support this transformation.

You'll join a collaborative team of developers, testers, and sysadmins, and take ownership of performance, reliability, and security across large-scale, sharded databases. This is a hands-on DBA role where your work directly impacts NHS services-so uptime, optimisation, and smart architecture are key.

What You'll Be Working With

• MySQL, Vitess, and Linux in production (Dont worry if you haven't worked with Vitess)
• Monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana
• Shard allocation, replication tuning, disk performance
• Backup, restore, and DR testing
• Data migrations and custom table loads for NHS tenants
• Zero-downtime patching and performance baselining

What You'll Bring

• Proven experience as a DBA managing large, sharded databases
• Strong MySQL tuning and Linux environment skills
• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting setups
• Bonus if you've worked with Vitess, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, or ArgoCD

Benefits

• Bonus
• 25 days of annual holiday
• Vitality Healthcare - private health insurance
• Aviva Life Insurance - 3x your annual salary
• Pension scheme with 4% employer contribution
• Town-centre offices in Wokingham
• Regular social events to connect and unwind
• Flexible working hours to suit your lifestyle

If you're a DBA who loves solving real-world problems, building resilient systems, and making a meaningful impact, this is your kind of role.

Apply now or reach out for a chat. Let's talk.