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Database Administrator

Remote:

Full Remote

Contract:

Full time

Experience:

Senior (5-10 years)

Work from:

United States

Offer summary

Qualifications:

9+ years IT experience, 6+ years on MySQL and MariaDB, Experience with MySQL 5.7/8.x and MariaDB 10.4/10.5/10.6, Experience in cloud environments like AWS, Azure, GCP, Knowledge of Linux and Windows Servers.

Key responsabilities:

Support large enterprise environments
Manage backups and restore processes
Architect and plan database solutions
Ensure high availability and performance tuning
Provide 24/7 production support

Datavail

1001 - 5000 Employees

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Job description

Job Description

Datavail is seeking a highly skilled, self-motivated, and passionate MySQL and MariaDB DBA to join our MySQL and MariaDB Global Practice. As a DBA, you will be working on the latest Enterprise and Opensource technologies in the industry. This role requires strong technical database skills, but also requires excellent communication and collaborative skills to help drive customers and internal teams

Required Skills:

9+ years overall IT experience, with min 6+ years on MySQL and MariaDB Product Suite
Extensive experience in MySQL 5.7/8.x and MariaDB 10.4/10.5/10.6 both on-premises and Cloud
Has supported large enterprise environments with complex datasets
Worked in Clustered architecture like InnoDB cluster, Galera Cluster, etc
Experience in MySQL and MariaDB Backup, Restores
Experience in Advanced Monitoring Solutions
Experience in Database migrations to the cloud
Experienced in Advanced HA Solutions with MySQL, MariaDB and Percona
Experienced in RDS and Aurora MySQL support
Experience in Performance tuning in opensource databases
Database Security best practice implementations
Experience in Heterogenous migrations to MySQL/MariaDB
Experienced in AWS, Azure, GCP and/or any cloud environment
Experience in data modelling, schema design and optimization
Planning and architecting database solutions
24 X 7 production support experience
Knowledge of Linux and Windows Servers
Clear Communication

General Experience in the following other areas is required:

Worked in customer services environments or in Managed Service Providers/Professional Services Providers
Extensive experience with installation, management, upgrades, backup and restore of large MySQL and MariaDB database system installations
Experience benchmarking, clustering, and tuning the databases for performance, reliability, high availability, and scalability
Ability to work with others collectivity, as a Team Scripting in Bash/Perl/JavaScript/Python Percona Toolkits, PMM, ProxySQL, Orchestrator, Max Scale etc
MySQL, MariaDB and AWS, Azure Certifications is a plus “Candidate must either have Professional Certification or obtain within the first 90 days of employment”
Knowledge in HTAP and Distributed Database models is a plus
Automation using Ansible Chef, Puppet or IaaC with Terraform/Cloud Formation, etc
Preferable Kubernetes/Containers experience
Must have strong analytical, verbal, and written communication skills
Must have experience in MySQL database architecture, logical and physical design, Automation, documentation, shell scripting, Stored procedure programming, query tuning, system tuning, resource contention analysis, backup, and recovery, standby, replication, etc
Must have substantial hands-on knowledge on AWS Cloud and Azure Cloud
Understanding of PHP, Perl, and web application framework
Good knowledge of ITIL Framework
Ability to lead technical teams and run customer facing meetings
Ability to lead teams to resolve technical challenges and ensure tasks are being completed appropriately
Experience in an IT service-related supervisory and/or management position will be considered as an additional advantage