For one of our clients in the IT industry, we’re looking for a Senior Database Administrator with experience in MySQL who wants to be challenged on a daily basis. This position entails monitoring the integrity, optimizing the performance and ensuring the security of the Company’s databases.

In this role you will:

• Design and map the database architecture
• Assure the data remains consistent across the database
• Monitor performance and manage parameters to provide optional responses to users
• Develop, manage and test security, back-up and recovery plans
• Implement a failover solution
• Automate regular Database/OS Administrative work with other support teams and ensure they are functioning correctly
• Plan and execute tests of fault tolerance capabilities, including backup/recovery, replication, failover and disaster recovery
• Participate in the creation and refinement of staging & production database instances
• Write database documentation, including data standards, procedures and data dictionary definitions
• Collaborate with the Technical team in order in order to optimize queries, designs and SQL performance
• Provide support to the operations teams
• Serve as the primary point of contact for advanced level troubleshooting and perform hands-on Database/ System administration as required
• Collaborate with application developers to evolve the database architecture and design.

We would expect you to have:

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science
• 5 or more years of working experience in Relational DBMS Administration/Engineering (preferably MySQL) on production environment, supporting complex, highly available OLTP databases
• Experience in tuning database server configurations, queries and indexes
• Proficiency in any of the scripting languages (e.g. Python/ PHP/ Perl/ Ruby and SQL)
• Exposure to any NoSQL solutions ( Mongo is a big plus but any other NoSQL will also apply)
• Good understanding of the Operating System concepts, mainly Linux
• Experience in remotely managing Linux servers via command line tools
• Well-versed in HA strategies, including databases replication, failover clustering, database mirroring and log shipping
• Experienced in the creation and implementation of full proof DR plans – including Backup and Recovery
• Skilled in database server performance monitoring and storage performance optimization
• Working experience on Amazon Web Services is a plus.

Other skills:

• Dynamic, proactive and responsible
• Good organizational and time management skills
• Keen to keep up with the IT trends
• Full proficiency in English (mandatory)