Senior MySQL Database Administrator
Description:
- We are looking for a candidate with passion and motivation who is ready to take his/her career to the next level. Leadership skills are a vital to your success as is the ability to manage multiple projects in multiple geographical locations.
- We are a MySQL shop basically operating within the LAMP/J architecture. We are looking for a DBA with a well rounded skill set at the production support level including enterprise backup solutions and advanced recovery expertise, production environment monitoring, DB performance management, storage management and capacity planning. The ability and willingness to engage in knowledge transfer of these skills to others is important as is the willingness to continually learn new skills.
- Our position in the gaming industry requires that we push database technology into uncharted territory in terms of database architecture, scaling and concurrency. If the idea of applying your database expertise to solving new, challenging and difficult technological problems is exciting and motivating to you, then you should strongly consider applying for this position.
Requirements:
- 5 Years DBA experience in development or production capacity
- 3 years Production DBA experience supporting redundant systems with 24x7 uptime requirements
- 3 Years Unix or Linux experience / strong working knowledge of hardware systems, RAID and disk subsystems in fault tolerant environments
- 2 Years MySQL experience
- 2 Years experience managing high volume, high concurrency environments and multi-TB OLTP databases
- Desire to lead DBA teams, to lead projects and to have visibility across multiple business units
- Desire to have ownership of and responsibility for the success major multi-discipline projects
- Ability to implement and manage MySQL partitioning
- Ability to deploy and support MySQL multi-master Replication
- Ability to utilize one or more scripting language - bash/perl/php utilized in production support operations
- Ability to effectively communicate with both IT and business-side people to achieve results
Beneficial Extras:
- Gaming Experience - console, PC, FPS, MMO, etc. is a very strong plus
- Development DBA experience/application development experience
- Data Warehouse development / support experience including dimensional modelling, physical design and/or ETL development
- Experience with ControlTier, Oracle or other RDBMS, source control system such as Perforce, Subversion, ClearCase, etc.
We are willing to relocate the right candidate