MySQL Database Administrator

What we need

We are currently looking for a self-motivated, MySQL DBA to join our team. In this role, you’ll be working with our Systems and DB team to improve our existing database infrastructure. 

Projects

• Build out our clustered / highly-available database environments on MySQL 5.7 and MySQL 8.0
• Database upgrades and replica setups
• Routine database backups and restore exercises
• Database monitoring and alerting enhancements

Primary Responsibilities

The job involves the following responsibilities:

• Manage all primary and replica databases across our primary and DR data centers 
• Participate in database designs, optimization and maintenance issues 
• Participate in on-call rotation
• Participate in weekly release process
• Install, configure, backup, upgrades, user management, monitoring, and performance tuning of MySQL 5.7 and MySQL 8.0 servers
• Develop strategies and implement solutions for database continuous testing, integration and delivery
• Document policies, processes, and procedures
• Implement best practices 
• Assist the dev teams as needed

Job Qualifications

To be successful in this role, you should have the following:

• Experience with MySQL Databases administration (everything from scripting, best practices, systems configurations, tuning and optimization, and backups, restores, data dumps, etc)
• Knowledge of HA/DR design considerations for MySQL database systems
• You should be comfortable in a Linux environment
• Financial/trading or investment environments are a huge plus
• Experience with Bash, Python or PHP scripting is a plus
• Experience with AWS and RDS is a plus
• It would also help if you have a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science or Engineering