Senior Database Administrator

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Equals Money

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Fintech • Finance • B2B

Equals Money is a platform that streamlines spend management and international payments for businesses. It offers a variety of financial tools, including multi-currency accounts, expense management software, prepaid and virtual cards, and business debit cards. Equals Money is designed to help businesses manage their finances more efficiently, enabling them to make payments in 140 currencies and providing detailed real-time control over expenses. With support for international payments and a dedicated customer service team, Equals Money aims to simplify the movement of money for over 30,000 companies worldwide.

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2017

💳 Fintech

💸 Finance

🤝 B2B

📋 Description

• Monitor cluster health and alerts (CloudWatch / Performance Insights / slow-query), investigate anomalies and act on incidents. • Diagnose and optimise slow queries and problematic transactions: use EXPLAIN, rewrite queries, and add/remove indexes as needed. • Ensure backups, snapshots and PITR are configured and tested; maintain and exercise recovery/runbook procedures. • Perform capacity planning, sizing and maintenance (patches, minor version upgrades, failover drills) to keep performance and availability targets. • Automate routine checks and reports (index coverage, long-running queries, replica lag, space usage) and produce actionable recommendations for engineering teams.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong practical experience with MySQL / Aurora MySQL administration at production scale (schema design, replication, failover). • Proven ability to profile and tune queries and indexes (EXPLAIN, slow-query analysis, query rewriting). • Solid knowledge of backup & recovery strategies for Aurora (snapshots, continuous backups/PITR) and tested restore experience. • Experience with monitoring and alerting for databases (CloudWatch, Performance Insights, slow-query logs) and acting on alarms. • Comfortable scripting/automation (Bash, Python, or similar) to build health checks, runbooks and operational tooling; good Linux fundamentals.

🏖️ Benefits

• A competitive salary benchmarked against a peer group. • 25 days holiday per year + your birthday off • Opportunities for progression, development and learning new skills - £250 towards the cost of learning & development. • Free onsite Nuffield Health gym & pool (London) and discounted gym membership elsewhere • GetActive with Aviva - Health and Wellbeing discounts on services and products • Interbank currency rates on travel money and international transfers. • Bupa Private Healthcare • Free Eye Test and £50 up to the cost of glasses • EAP Service - Mental Health Services • Life Assurance Policy - x3 annual salary • Contributory pension scheme • Cycle to Work Scheme • Season Ticket Loans • Enhanced Parental Policies • Complimentary tea, coffee, soft drinks and fruit