Sr. MySQL DBA

| West Suburbs | Hybrid
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The Application Database Administrator works with client Application Developers and Ensono System Database Administrators on supporting and implementing application changes, database enhancements and database production support including incident, problem and change management. This role also requires high level of curiosity and creativity to work around complex technical & business challenges.
 

Job Responsibilities:

  • Established as Product SME and/or established as specialist
  • Installation and configuration of database software and related products
  • Plan and implement Database backup and recovery and disaster recovery configurations
  • Adherence to well-defined change control and configuration management policies
  • Capacity planning & system-level architecture
  • OS/Storage/DB configuration and optimization
  • Database security checks and audits, including compliance-related reporting & controls
  • General database health checks
  • Working with DBMS vendor support (Oracle MySQL support, Percona etc.)
  • Defining and maintaining quantitative SLAs and helping enhance current service levels
  • Physical data model/architecture, DML, DDL generation and maintenance
  • Responsible for recommending Architectural/Structural changes Database creation and configuration
  • Maintenance (proactive, reactive and automated); both scheduled and unscheduled. Improve processes and procedures
  • Complex application troubleshooting and repairs
  • Reporting on state of databases
  • Database tuning (proactive and reactive)
  • Maintaining specialized environments such as log shipping, replication, cluster-based instances, etc.
  • SOP (Std. Operating Procedure) definition & automation
  • Responsible for setup and maintaining standards and best practices
  • Documentation related to all Application DBA areas
  • Development & utilization of detailed triage processes
  • Detailed workload analysis
  • Infrastructure advise and planning
  • Disaster recovery/failover services
  • Working with developers and third-party application owners to introduce managed changes into the production environment
  • Design appropriate data architecture to enable access to and availability of structured data
  • Managing database users and security/access control
  • Contributes significant, new and innovative ideas to the DBA knowledge base
  • Architect complex database solutions
  • Configure and execute Percona toolkit utilities
  • SQL Statement performance tuning/index recommendations.  Able to write and tune complex SQL queries and assist the development team as required.

·       Application tuning and load testing. 

·       Support Partition maintenance and replication processing

·       Participate in application upgrade deployments.

·       Participate in an On-call Rota

 Required Skills:

·       5+ years’ experience with a bachelor’s degree

·       Experience working within an IT Operations environment

·       Experience of the full application life cycle

·       Expert relational database knowledge, primarily in MySQL/MariaDB Server Administration and Performance Tuning

·       In depth knowledge of Logical/Physical Database Design

·       Ability to develop Unix Shell scripts and database SQL scripts. Familiarity with writing database DDL & DML statements

·       Strong database administration

·       Hands-on experience with Database performance tuning and familiar with database performance and diagnostic related features and tools

·       Experience in Linux/Unix/ VMWare/Cloud/Apache/JBoss/PHP and Java

·       Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and scripting languages

·       Excellent written and verbal communication skills

·       Ability to work independently

·       Experience working in a fast-paced environment with ability to learn quickly

·       Experience of working with application developers to create optimized queries

·       Willingness to collaborate closely with the client and report details to the Operational System DBA team

  • Rigorous attention to detail and thorough application of standards, set guidelines and best practices

Desired Skills: 

·       Experience troubleshooting enterprise infrastructure environments across Open Systems environments hosting critical client databases and applications.

·       An understanding of Infrastructure technologies like Storage Area Networks and Networking.

·       Additional preferred knowledge:  VMware ESX, VSphere, Exchange, Cisco experience, Scripting, Public Cloud

·       Amazon RDS, Aurora, Azure MySQL

·       NoSQL

·       Familiar with Percona Monitoring and Management tool

·       Understanding and awareness of technology and an ability to learn and acquire new technologies as needed

·       Knowledge of ITIL and process models

·       Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 7 years of related experience; or equivalent work experience

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