MySQL Database Administrator

We is looking for a MySQL Database Administrator to assist our growing practice.

Our company provides 24x7 support for our customer's mission critical database systems, sports betting and casino platforms.

Responsibilities:

·????Influences and provides leadership beyond own projects or across multiple internal customers

·????Provides technical escalation expertise for database system problems

·????Provides design expertise for complex database solutions

·????Maintains an awareness of developments in emerging technologies and disciplines relating to present and future products and solutions through personal research, continuing education, seminars/trade shows and related activities

·????Increases or contributes to customer satisfaction and profitability, keeping an eye out for customer needs and or issues where we may be able to provide solutions to improve their database environments.

·????Promotes and enforces adoption of standards, process, and SLAs

·????Schedule and conduct the weekly technical review meeting with each internal customer

·????Perform proactive database administration and monitoring for all databases at all the sites and environments

·????Automate work/jobs were appropriate and engage the Architects and DevOps when needed

·????Take ownership and accountability for all internal customers- i.e. Work close with the Developers to be aware of the major DB changes and prevent potential issues

Applicants must have the following experience in order to be considered for this position:

Mandatory Skills:

·????10+ years overall IT experience, with 1+ years on MySQL, Percona and MariaDB Product Suite

·????Extensive experienced in MySQL/Percona 5.6/5.7/8.0 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, Percona and MariaDB Backup, Restores

·????Experience in Advanced Monitoring Solutions

·????Experience in Database migrations to the cloud

·????Experienced in Advanced HA Replication 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/Percona/MariaDB

·????Experienced in Installation, Configuration and Administration of MySQL, Percona and MariaDB, MongoDB, PostgreSQL on Linux and Windows

·????Experienced in AWS, Azure, GCP and/or any cloud provider environment

·????Experience in data modeling, 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

·????Ability to work with others collectivity, as a Team

·????Scripting in Bash/Perl/JavaScript/Python

·????Percona Toolkits, PMM, ProxySQL, Orchestrator, Max Scale, Innotop etc.

·????Automation using Ansible, Chef, Puppet or IaaC with Terraform/Cloud Formation, etc.

·????Preferable Kubernetes experience

·????Is able to coordinate DB changes between Delasport's DBA teams

·????Can converse with executive levels of management and user base

·????Open to join oncall rotation when needed.

·????MySQL, Percona, MariaDB, GCP, AWS, Azure, RedHat, Ubuntu, Oracle Linux or other DBA, Linux or Cloud certificates is a plus.

Interested? Apply Now @ [email protected]

Our client:

We have an experienced technical team of IT Architects, JAVA and PHP Developers, DevOps Support Team, NOC engineers and newly created DBA team. So far we migrated our 6 production MySQL primary-slave instances to the latest community edition version 8.0.29. We also support on best efforts some other databases and environments like Dev, Test, Demo environments, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka etc. There are many running and implemented technology and innovation initiatives like adopting containers K8S, change management via CI/CD, Liquibase DB version control, migration to microservices, implement DB monitoring and alerting tools, evaluating new DB technologies and environments, performance optimizations and security testing, site reliability engineering etc. This model allows our us to provide superior service to our customers, while having the right work-live balance.