IT and Database Developer

The partnership channel offers scale and automation on a pay-for-performance model that delivers the operating leverage necessary for brand survival. Partnerize empowers marketers with technology built to discover, engage, and convert audiences, at scale, all while maintaining brand safety and control.
The partnership channel offers scale and automation on a pay-for-performance model that delivers the operating leverage necessary for brand survival. Partnerize empowers marketers with technology built to discover, engage, and convert audiences, at scale, all while maintaining brand safety and control.Joining Partnerize means joining a company that sincerely values your talent, expertise, and passion. As a Senior Database Engineer (MySQL) - Databases you will be part of the Partnerize Technical Operations team, they work with the business, development, and IT functions. You will be working within a team of Infrastructure Engineers responsible for designing, building and implementing solutions for the platform and providing the required training to support the solution. You should have a keen interest in problem-solving accompanied with experience in networking, linux systems and an experience in system designs, analysing what is currently implemented and offering improvements as well as ensuring the supporting documentation is in place. You''ll be supporting and maintaining the network, infrastructure, delivering projects and processes required to ensure we remain available, scalable, and secure. Involved in support, project delivery and maintenance activities completed by the Operational Team.We''re looking for a Senior Database Engineer - Databases with a desire to learn. We need people that will get excited about taking us to the next stage of our evolution helping us with their specific skills and experience but learning new ones along the way.As a Senior Database Engineer at Partnerize, You Will:Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large Databases servicing distributed software applicationsMeasure and optimise new implemented systems performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward.Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applicationsImprove reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutionsStrong communication skills to work with development teams, product owners, and other stakeholders to ensure database needs are met.Deliver large technical projectsExperience in mentoring junior DBAs and providing technical leadership on database design, optimisation, and migration strategies.MySQL
:Proficiency in MySQL replication (master-slave, master-master) and high availability configurations.Experience in query performance optimisation, including slow query analysis, indexing strategies, and troubleshooting.normalisation, denormalisation, partitioning) to enhance database performance.Experience in managing MySQL upgrades and schema migrations in production environments, ensuring minimal downtime and data integrity.In-depth knowledge of replication techniques across the various database technologies to ensure high availability, data consistency, and fault tolerance.Proficient in resolving replication lag, failover issues, and ensuring data integrity across different database platforms.PostgreSQL / NoSQL databases
:Expertise in PostgreSQL replication (synchronous, asynchronous), logical replication, and managing replication lag.Experience in PostgreSQL schema optimisation (indexing, partitioning, query rewrites) to ensure efficient data retrieval.Demonstrated experience in performing
database upgrades
(both major and minor versions) with minimal downtime, ensuring compatibility across systems, and handling post-upgrade issues.Expertise in managing
database migrations
, including:In-place migrations
(within the same database platform).Cross-database migrations
(e.g., migrating from MySQL to PostgreSQL or MongoDB to CouchDB).Migrating between cloud providers or on-prem to cloud for various database platforms.Experience in
versioning and testing
migration scripts to ensure smooth transitions with minimal service interruption.Monitoring and Troubleshooting:Strong experience with database monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, Percona Monitoring and Management) for tracking performance metrics and ensuring database health.Expertise in diagnosing and resolving performance issues related to replication, slow queries, schema design, and database migrations.Knowledge of setting up alerting systems and responding to database issues proactively.Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Shell, Bash) to automate routine DBA tasks such as backups, monitoring, upgrades, and migrations.Experience with automation tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet to manage database configurations across multiple environments.Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for database schema changes and migrations to ensure controlled and tested deployments.Apache Druid / Column based databases
:Familiarity with setting up and managing replication across Druid clusters, including data availability and data sharding strategies.Understanding of schema design and optimisation for Druid''s columnar data format.Expertise in MongoDB replication (ReplicaSets, Sharded Clusters) to ensure data redundancy, fault tolerance, and scalability.Proficient in schema design for MongoDB, with a focus on denormalisation, indexing strategies, and sharding to improve query performance.Hands-on experience with upgrading MongoDB versions and migrating data between MongoDB clusters or from on-premises to cloud environments.Experience with monitoring systems (Zabbix, Prometheus)Containerisation and Orchestration
: Familiarity with deploying and managing databases in containerized environments (e.g., 25 days holiday in addition to bank holidays- Enhanced Parental Leave: 6 months full pay for birth parent, 4 weeks non-birth parent at fu]]-
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