NoSQL DBA / Database Consultant

In this contract role, you will serve as a Couchbase DBA for a leading enterprise client, supporting production and development environments. You will optimize performance, design scalable Couchbase architectures, and drive automation and modernization efforts. The position emphasizes remote work outside IR35 and collaboration with cross-functional teams on a large enterprise platform. This is an opportunity to shape database strategy, replication, and performance at scale.

• Manage Couchbase Server and Capella deployments in production and development environments
• Design logical and physical database architecture and optimise performance
• Implement XDCR replication and data synchronization strategies
• Drive automation and use virtualization/containerization (VMware, Docker, Kubernetes) to streamline operations
• Perform performance tuning, indexing, and caching optimisations
• Work with OLTP and DWH patterns, including AWS Aurora/RDS where relevant
• Collaborate with teams across data, devops, and infrastructure to support enterprise deployment

• Commercial experience as Couchbase DBA
• Experience with Couchbase Server and Capella
• Production and development environment experience
• Proficiency in N1QL/SQL++ and SQL
• Familiarity with multi-dimensional scaling, caching, and indexing
• Experience with virtualization/containerization (VMware, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of Couchbase XDCR replication
• AWS or Azure experience is a plus
• Beneficial: Kafka, Elastic Search, Java or Scala
• OLTP/DWH experience (AWS Aurora, AWS RDS)

• Couchbase Server
• Couchbase Capella
• N1QL
• SQL++
• XDCR replication
• VMware