We are looking for a Senior MySQL Database Administrator passionate about IT to join our Technical Operations team as a result of NMI’s continued growth and investment in the underlying systems.

You will focus on the maintenance and design of our database estate, including restructuring of the database resources to best suit the performance, redundancy and reliability goals of the company.

You will be working with our US team so you will be required to work variable hours to suit the needs of the US and UK business.

This is a fully remote role (work anywhere in the UK), however if you live within a reasonable commutable distance, we’d love to see you in our Bristol office from time to time!

Responsibilities:

• Manage and monitor all databases
• Assist in designing and refining database architecture
• On-Call for database related incidents
• Test, document and improve database performance across the estate
• Incident root cause analysis; identify solutions to prevent future database outages
• Work with developers to resolve performance issues and support database-related improvements
• Ability to communicate effectively with company stakeholders

Requirements

Do I have what it takes?

Essential Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years of Database Administration knowledge and experience with MySQL 5.5, 5.6, 5.7 and 8.0
• Experience performing MySQL patches and Major version upgrades
• Experience in the following: High Availability, Replication, Disaster Recovery, Backup and recovery
• Experience with Percona Tools
• Skilled in database design and architecture
• A good understanding and experience of Linux - RHEL/CentOS
• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Calm under pressure
• Strong problem solving skills

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Knowledge of Cloud hosted databases
• MySQL certification
• Understanding of Infrastructure components and requirements outside of the database environment
• Knowledge of Puppet / Gitlab

Benefits

• As well as being a part of something exciting everyday, you will also receive the following benefits:

• Competitive salary (dependent on experience)
• 25 days holiday each year (+ bank holidays + 1 day after each year of service with up to a max. of 30 days)
• Flexible working hours to suit your lifestyle (employees can start their day between 8am and 10am and finish between 4pm and 6pm)
• Remote working
• Family Friendly policies (Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay and Shared Parental Leave)
• Annual Bonus scheme
• We provide our employees with fantastic career progression opportunities, offering specific courses and the possibility to gain further qualifications.
• Private health insurance upon successful completion of your probationary period
• A strong commitment to employee wellbeing including mental health first aiders, yoga sessions and employee assist programme
• Cycle to Work Scheme (government-backed cycle to work scheme)
• Workplace pension scheme
• LifeWorks subscription - discounts on gyms, restaurants, high street retailers, cinema tickets etc.
• Bonusly colleague reward scheme
• Employee referral scheme with generous financial reward

We’re looking for creative and passionate people who share our vision of making payments easy. If that sounds like you and you meet the requirements above, then please click on 'Apply for this job'!

We are an Equal Opportunities employer and will provide reasonable support throughout the recruitment process to applicants who have a disability. Please let us know in advance so that any support, aids or adaptations can be put in place to assist you.

Please be aware that all offers of employment are made subject to receipt of satisfactory background and financial checks.