Lead Engineer

Lead Engineer - MySQL Database Administrator position with 7+ years of experience in MySQL DBA, replication, SQL coding, shell scripting, and cloud services. Must have hands-on DBA skills, strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills, and experience with AWS/Cloud Services.

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 experience
• 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

Benefits

• Flexible work schedules
• Opportunities for skills enhancement and training
• Participation in project activities