Database Administrator (DBA)

Who are OnBuy?

OnBuy are an online marketplace who are on a mission of being the best choice for every customer, everywhere.

We have recently been named one of the UK's fastest-growing tech companies in Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 for the third year in a row (as well as 'Fastest-Growing Tech Business in the South West').

All achievements we are very proud of, but we don't let that go to our head. We are all laser focused on our mission and understand the huge joint effort ahead of us needed to succeed.

Working at OnBuy:

We are a team of driven and motivated people who thrive when working at pace. To succeed at OnBuy you need to take charge and fully own your responsibilities, rolling your sleeves up when needed to 'get it done'. Working at OnBuy you are surrounded by so much opportunity, but you must possess the ability to stay focused and prioritise ruthlessly. Most importantly, you will thrive in an ever-changing environment as we are constantly evolving.

At OnBuy, you're not just a number or another cog in a machine. We are creating something really special, and you have the opportunity to affect meaningful change and have your voice heard.

We are a close team, who have the opportunity to learn and grow as OnBuy evolves. We work in a flexible way, meaning we can prioritise our health and relationships, but when we are working, we graft.

Job overview:
As a DBA, your primary responsibility will be to manage all aspects of the end-to-end delivery of, and support for, SQL servers & databases, adhering to the relevant standards and assisting projects where necessary.

You will lead design and query optimization to achieve highly scalable systems. 

In addition, this MySQL DBA will have experience of administering, supporting, and building databases in a business-critical production environment.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Design databases with Capacity Management consideration and incremental load 
• Maintaining and monitoring database solutions 
• Performance tuning: indexing, partitioning & load balancing
• Develop and practice disaster recovery plans to ensure data integrity
• Troubleshoot database performance issues and architect solutions with development teams
• Help ensure security and compliance across all database systems
• Execute database upgrades
• Manage database ACLs
• Automate as much as possible
• Analyse and determine informational needs and elements, data relationships and attributes, proposed manipulation, data flow and storage requirements, data output and reporting capabilities for complex databases. Recommends and implements course of action based on analyses
• Defines logical attributes and inter-relationships and designs complex data structures to accommodate database production, storage, maintenance, and accessibility to enhance performance

Experience and Skills: 
Essential

• Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, Ubuntu, PowerShell, bash Windows 
• Databases: MySQL, Percona, Couchbase, NoSQL concepts
• Languages: Shell T-SQL, PL/SQL
• GCP experience, Cloud SQL

Desirable

• Web application specific experience, RabbitMQ, Jenkins, Spanner

The salary range on offer for this role is £50,000 - £55,000 per annum, depending on experience.

In return for helping us to grow, we’ll offer you company equity, meaning you own a piece of this business we are all working so hard to build.