Contract Database Administrator

Only UK based contractors to be considered Description: We need a senior contract DBA for a tightly-scoped, high-leverage piece of work: cut storage and I/O (IOPS) cost on a large, write-heavy Aurora MySQL database, with zero downtime and no production impact until a controlled cutover. Project: The database is overwhelmingly write-driven (high-volume API request and ping logging). Years of growth and over-long retention have left it expensive to store and slow to query. Two issues dominate cos…