Role and Responsibilities
- Architect, maintain, tune, and analyze all aspects of the production database.
- Administer, maintain, develop, and implement policies and procedures for ensuring the security and integrity of the company database.
- Create data models and database designs, data access, and table maintenance codes.
- Review and approve schema and queries from software developers.
- Administer and support existing databases while ensuring optimized performance, stability, and uptime.
- Consistently analyze performance and architecture to optimize performance and integrity.
- Resolve database performance issues, database capacity issues, replication, and other distributed data issues.
- Responsible for advising CTO on capacity requirements for the database.
- Participate in the implementation of redundancy plans.
The ideal candidate will provide world-class maintenance and support of our mission-critical platform to ensure industry-leading availability, performance, and customer satisfaction.
Essential Knowledge and Skills
Required:
- Advanced knowledge of MySQL 5.X
- Experience with InnoDB
- Strong Linux/Solaris skills
- Proven ability to set up and manage replication databases
- Basic understanding of networking
Preferred:
- Experience with web servers and server farms
- Experience with storage solutions
- Experience at a smaller to mid-size company, to allow a broader operational view
Education Requirements and Experience
Requires a four-year degree or equivalent with 4 years of experience minimum in a DBA role.
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