Lead Engineer - MySQL DBA

We are seeking a Lead Engineer - MySQL DBA to join our team. The successful candidate will have 7+ years of MySQL DBA experience and expertise in SQL coding, tuning, and automation. They will also have experience with AWS/Cloud Services and cloud deployments.

Requirements

• 7+ years of MySQL DBA experience
• MySQL replication experience
• SQL coding and tuning experience
• Shell scripting and automation experience
• MySQL Enterprise Manager experience
• AWS/Cloud Services experience: EC2, RDS, and Aurora
• Cloud deployments experience: Jenkins, Bitbucket, Terraform
• Hands-on, technically adept DBA, capable of performing required DB tasks
• Strong troubleshooting/performance tuning skills
• Ability to assess and improve SQL performance
• Understanding of MySQL's underlying storage engines, such as InnoDB and MyISAM
• Ability to Handle common database procedures, such as upgrade, backup, recovery, migration, etc.
• Profile server resource usage, optimize and tweak as necessary
• Expert level MySQL RDBMS installation/configuration, patching, troubleshooting, performance tracking/tuning, back-up/recovery, remote monitoring skills with hands-on experience in -large and very dynamic environments
• Strong commitment to following SDLC/Change-Management principles
• Self-starter and be able to perform work with minimal supervisory direction
• Knowledge of data quality, data management, and data testing strategies and practices
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written
• Strong experience working with ticketing tools such as ServiceNow, Zenoss or any other monitoring tool, Cloud monitoring tools (CloudWatch, CloudTrail), AppDynamics (or similar APM tool)
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Keen analytical and structured approach to problem solving
• Ability to accommodate flexible work schedules
• Ability to diagnose problems and triage/resolve issues across various tiers (application, network, database, server, or storage tiers)
• Ability to implement automation to reduce manual administrative tasks through use of jobs, scripts, cron, or other techniques
• Experience in DB2 UDB, Oracle, Postgres, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB is plus
• Experience with configuration management tools: SCCM; Puppet; or Ansible.
• Development or enhancement of training and upskilling programs

Benefits

• Professional growth and development opportunities
• Collaborative and dynamic work environment
• Competitive compensation and benefits package