Are you the person everyone turns to when critical databases need to perform flawlessly?
Verity Talent Partners are sourcing an experienced Database Engineer to join a leading UK aviation technology team.
If you're passionate about keeping databases fast, secure and highly available, this could be your next opportunity. You'll work on large-scale production environments, helping improve the performance, reliability and resilience of critical database systems.
What You'll Do
Manage and optimise Percona MySQL and MongoDB databases
Improve database performance, availability and scalability
Support replication, clustering, sharding and high availability
Troubleshoot production database issues and perform root cause analysis
Design and maintain backup and disaster recovery solutions
Monitor database health using Prometheus, Grafana and Percona Monitoring & Management (PMM)
Work closely with DevOps and Infrastructure teams
What You'll Need
5+ years' experience as a Database Engineer, DBA or Database Reliability Engineer
Strong hands-on experience with Percona/MySQL
Commercial experience with MongoDB, including:
· Replica Sets
· Sharding
· Indexing
· Performance Tuning
Experience with:
· Linux/Unix
· Replication & Clustering
· High Availability
· Backup & Disaster Recovery
· Percona XtraBackup
Nice to Have
PostgreSQL
AWS, Azure or GCP
Bash or Python scripting
Why Join?
Hybrid role
Work with modern cloud and open-source technologies
Join a collaborative engineering team supporting critical aviation platforms
Pay: R90 000,00 - R110 000,00 per month
Application Question(s):
- A business-critical MySQL database has become significantly slower after a software deployment. Users are reporting timeouts, but the infrastructure team says the servers are healthy. Explain step by step your investigation from the moment you're alerted until the issue is resolved.
- As this role involves working closely with DevOps, Infrastructure and Software Engineers. Can you give an example of a time you had to influence others to solve a database problem.
Experience:
- Percona/MySQL expert with strong MongoDB administration: 5 years (Required)
- Prometheus Grafana Percona Monitoring & Management: 5 years (Required)
- Database Engineer: 6 years (Required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Cape Town, Western Cape
