Mark43
Public Safety Software
DatabaseAdministrator
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“Database Administrator at Mark43. Skills: Database administration, Cloud-hosted databases, Performance tuning, Reliability. Own and improve reliability, performance, security, scalability of production database systems. Lead database monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, backup, recovery, replication, disaster recovery”
Industry & Context.
Identify, diagnose, and resolve complex database performance and availability issues
Authorized to work for any employer in the country, Unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa, UK-based, Eligible to obtain and maintain UK police and/or government security vetting, NPPV3 clearance, SC clearance, Complete required vetting process, Provide accurate documentation, Comply with ongoing aftercare obligations, Promptly report any circumstances that may affect vetting status, Engage in appropriate use of company's electronic information, Become knowledgeable about and follow relevant security policies, Protect resources under their control, Promptly report security-related incidents and violations, Respond to official reports of security incidents
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Significant professional experience administering MySQL or similar relational databases in production environments, Deep experience operating cloud-hosted database platforms, preferably AWS RDS, Aurora, or Azure database services, expertise in database performance tuning, query optimization, replication, backup, recovery, and high availability, Experience designing and operating database infrastructure for complex cloud-based software applications, Experience with infrastructure as code, automation, observability, and production operations, understanding of cloud infrastructure, networking, security, access controls, and operational risk, Ability to influence engineering teams and guide database design decisions across services, incident management skills and sound judgment during high-pressure production events, Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences, Demonstrated ability to mentor teammates and improve team-wide technical practices, Eligibility and willingness to complete UK police vetting requirements for customer-facing public safety work
Nice to Have
Experience supporting AWS RDS, Aurora, or Azure database platforms at scale, Experience with microservices-based architectures and distributed systems, Experience supporting SaaS platforms, public sector customers, law enforcement customers, or regulated environments, Experience with compliance-sensitive environments, security reviews, customer audits, or government delivery programs, Experience leading database migrations, major version upgrades, disaster recovery planning, or reliability programs, Experience defining SLOs, SLAs, operational metrics, and production readiness standards
What You'll Do.
Own and improve reliability
scalability of production database systems
Lead database monitoring
resolve complex database performance and availability issues
Partner with engineering teams on schema design
Lead technical planning for database migrations
operational improvements
Improve infrastructure-as-code
Define and maintain database runbooks
operational standards
production readiness criteria
Participate in and lead database-related incident response
post-incident reviews
Collaborate with security
delivery teams to meet requirements
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers
Represent database reliability concerns in architecture reviews
customer-readiness discussions
Help build operational foundation for UK police customers and future UK public safety partners
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with engineering, infrastructure, security, delivery, and customer teams; Collaborate with security, compliance, and delivery teams; Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers, DBAs, and operational teams; Represent database reliability concerns in architecture reviews, roadmap planning, and customer-readiness discussions
Communication Scope
Clear written and verbal communication skills; Explain complex technical tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences
Full Job Description
Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the country in which the role is being hired. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time. Mark43’s mission is to empower communities and their governments with new technologies that improve the safety and quality of life for all. We build powerful, scalable, and elegant software that sets a new standard for the tools upon which first responders rely. Our users are diverse, and we are committed to embracing diversity of thought, experience, and background within our team. About This Role We are seeking a UK-based Senior / Staff Database Administrator to help lead the design, reliability, security, and operational maturity of Mark43’s production database infrastructure for UK public safety customers. In this role, you will serve as a senior technical owner for database reliability and performance. You will partner with engineering, infrastructure, security, delivery, and customer teams to ensure that Mark43’s database systems are stable, scalable, secure, observable, and ready to support mission-critical public safety workloads. In this role, it is expected to independently own complex database initiatives and mentor others, provide technical direction, influence cross-team architecture, lead high-impact reliability programs, and serve as a trusted authority across the organization. Because this role may involve work with UK police customers, candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain the required UK police and/or government security vetting, including NPPV3 and, where applicable, SC clearance. What You'll Do In this role, you will: Own and improve the reliability, performance, security, and scalability of production database systems. Lead database monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery practices. Identify, diagnose, and resolve complex database performance and availability issues. Partner with engineering t
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