MYSQL DBA Fully remote-contract to hire 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 Top skills:

• Self-motivated with great communication written and verbal as well as time availability to maintain the relationship with India team
• Strong proficiency in MySQL database management in managing large scale MySQL databases. 5+ years
• Deep understanding of replication and clustering. Experience with replication configuration in MySQL. 5+ years

Ideal candidate background: 5+ years of MySQL DBA experience Required skills/attributes:

• Team is split between US and India. Candidate must be self-motivated with great communication written and verbal as well as time availability to maintain the relationship with India team
• Strong proficiency in MySQL database management in managing large scale MySQL databases
• Deep understanding of replication and clustering
• Experience with replication configuration in MySQL
• Good knowledge on MySQL architecture & advanced knowledge on InnoDB internals
• Understanding of MySQL’s underlying storage engines, such as InnoDB and other engines
• Experience in MySQL installation and upgrade process
• Hands on experience with designing and implementing database high availability solution strategies
• Experience on 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/attributes:

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

Interview process: One round, very technical