MySQL DBA | Direct Hire | No C2C!

MySQL DBA | Direct Hire | No C2C!

A MySQL Database Engineer is responsible for participating in all aspects of planning, deploying, documenting, monitoring, and maintaining our data persistence infrastructure critical to the success of the business.



Job Functions

• Maintain/Monitor/Improve Mysql/Percona Servers 30%


• Maintain/Monitor/Improve Indexes, and Application Queries 15%


• Manage/Verify Database Backups, Integrity, and DR Capabilities 15%


• Plan/Automate/Deploy/Troubleshoot Infrastructure 15%


• Work with Developers to Plan/Improve Application Queries 10%


• Work with Analytics Team to Plan/Improve Data Warehouse and Analytics Queries 10%


• Meetings/Presentations/Demos 5%

Qualifications:

• 3+ years experience with managing MySQL (Configuration, replication, etc.)


• 2+ years experience with SQL, or as a MySQL database administrator. (Writing and tuning indexes, query optimization, data modeling)


• 2+ years of experience planning, deploying, and managing Linux based infrastructure.


• 2+ years of experience automating tasks and writing tools in a scripting language (i.e. Bash, Python, Go, Ruby).


• 1+ years of experience with common networking technologies (i.e. IPv4, NAT, Firewalls).


• 1+ years of experience working with a configuration management tool (i.e. Ansible, Puppet, Chef, SaltStack).


• Production MySQL Orchestrator experience (or similar tech) is highly desired.


• Production ProxySQL experience (or similar tech) is highly desired.


• Production experience with Percona tools is highly desired.

Additional Experience:

• Experience managing document databases such as Elastic, MongoDB, ArangoDB, etc.


• Experience managing or automating tasks for Ubuntu/Redhat based systems.


• Experience managing infrastructure with Ansible.


• Experience managing or using RabbitMQ or Apache Kafka.


• Experience managing or using Redis optionally with Sentinel.


• Experience managing or using ElasticSearch, Logstash, or Kibana.


• Experience working with Kubernetes or equivalent container orchestration.


• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, IT or EE.