MySQL DBA

Job Details:

Job Title: MySQL DBA

Duration: Long-Term Contract

Location: Boca Raton, FL || Remote

Job Description:

Qualifications:

• Bachelor in Computer Science, Management of Information Systems(MIS) or related discipline or equivalent work experience.
• 5 years DBA working experience on Linux and Unix environments.
• 5 years or more of experience in database environment life cycle management and support of production and development environments.

Technical Skills – Required

• 5 years MySQL DBA working experience on Linux and Unix environments
• Extensive industry experience (5+ years) that include serving as a DBA in all facets of DBMS design, implementation, deployment, administration and maintenance, and project coordination
• 5 years or more of experience in database environment life cycle management and support of production and development environments
• Experience supporting Data Warehousing and ETL processing
• Experienced in database and disk system performance tuning
• Self-motivated detail oriented and highly responsible
• Capable of handling multiple assignments and additional responsibilities
• Expert level MySQL DBA knowledge and experience with MySQL 5.6, 5.7 and 8.0 - MySQL certification preferred
• Extensive MySQL technical experience in the following:
• High Availability solutions using replication, Disaster Recovery solutions
• Backup and recovery experience with Percona Tools [i.e., Xtrabackup]
• Performance tuning, production operations & support
• Security Administration
• Experience performing MySQL patches and Major version upgrades
• Experience in Linux Shell programming, SQL.
• 2 or more years using DevOPS tools. I.E., Terraform, Ansible, Chef, GitLab using one or more programming languages [I.E., Python, Perl, etc] on bare metal and virtual environments [I.E., AWS, OpenStack, Proxmox, Azure]

Responsibilities:

• Support the database management system and all related software.
• Design and Build Database Environments (Assist in developing estimates and schedules for new projects and/or extensions to existing systems).
• Technical Support for DBMS Environments (Provide technical support and perform database administration for all development and production databases on multiple environments).
• Willingness to be on call and support critical database issues that arise in the evening or on weekends.