As a Senior MySQL DBA, you will demonstrate a deep understanding of the business and contribute valuable insights to ensure optimal and performant database operations. Your experience in working with a variety of implementations and within high-availability environments will be crucial. You excel in multifaceted teams, leveraging various tools and processes to build robust, scalable, and modern applications.
This is a remote-first opportunity with the need to be onsite for only 1 day per month and the salary on offer is competitive based on experience.
Personality Competencies:
* With your extensive experience, you have contributed to the design and maintenance of highly available applications, collaborating with engineering teams worldwide.
* You are knowledgeable in technology decisions and architecture discussions, advocating for engineering and database best practices.
* Acting as a mentor to junior members, you foster a culture of continuous learning.
* You possess excellent communication and analytical skills, think algorithmically, and embrace a Mobile-First development mentality.
* You are also comfortable with analysis tools like Elastic Search, Rollbar, Jira, and have a keenness to learn new tools and technologies.
Mandatory Skills:
* Experience working as a MySQL DBA and developer.
* Proficiency in managing database server configurations, log files, binary logs, etc., and optimizing server resource usage when necessary.
* Strong expertise in developing, managing, and testing backup and recovery plans.
* Performance tuning, optimization, execution plans, and index management with best practices for database design.
* Experience with migrating SQL Server databases to MySQL.
* Solid experience in writing performant SQL queries and stored procedures.
* Upgrading the core MySQL architecture when required.
* Working knowledge of source control platforms and tools such as GIT.
* Experience with logging and analysis tools (Elasticsearch, Rollbar Sentry).
* Solid understanding of architectural design choices (Heap, MyISAM, InnoDB, etc.).
* Passion for technologies and a desire to stay updated with the latest skills.
* Experience working with high-traffic, responsive environments and applications, ensuring database performance, security, and availability. Knowledge and application of data security best practices.
* Application of software development best practices.
* Excellent communication skills as a core member of an internationally-based team.
Join our team as a Senior MySQL Database Developer/DBA and play a key role in maintaining and optimizing our high-traffic, multiple database applications. Apply now and become part of our dynamic and globally-minded team.
Job tags: MySQL, Logging/Analyzing Tools, Architecture
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