[Hiring] MySQL DBA @Software Technology

Role Description

Fully Remote - Contract to Hire

Job Title: MYSQL DBA

Position Type: C2H

• Operational maintenance and support of 120+ database instances across 15 environments.
• Patches, upgrades, proactive/reactive maintenance.
• Supporting the app dev team (performance tuning, SQL dev).
• War rooms and incident restoration.

Qualifications

• Self-motivated with great communication (written and verbal) skills.
• Strong proficiency in MySQL database management in managing large scale MySQL databases (5+ years).
• Deep understanding of replication and clustering, with experience in replication configuration in MySQL (5+ years).
• 5+ years of MySQL DBA experience.

Requirements

• Self-motivated with great communication skills and time availability to maintain the relationship with the India team.
• Strong proficiency in MySQL database management.
• Deep understanding of replication and clustering.
• Good knowledge of MySQL Architecture & advanced knowledge of InnoDB internals.
• Experience in MySQL installation and upgrade process.
• Hands-on experience with designing and implementing database high availability solution strategies.
• Experience with backup solutions and strategies.
• Knowledge of standards and best practices in MySQL.
• Proficient in writing and optimizing SQL statements.
• Knowledge of limitations in MySQL and their workarounds.
• Experience administering in Linux.
• Experience in MySQL user management.

Preferred Skills

• Jenkins pipeline development.
• UNIX scripting.
• Proxy SQL.
• Data partitioning.
• Experience with GitHub.
• Experience with MongoDB, Postgres, or Oracle.

Interview Process

• How many rounds? 1
• How technical will the interviews be? Very technical