Sr. Analyst-Database Admin

Analyst – MySQL Database Administration

Job Description

 Perform all technical research, analysis, design and architecting of IT Database systems ensuring that the documented business and technical requirements are met and implemented to industry best practice standards.

 Drives short & long term architecture strategy for IT Database systems. Communicates and validates database architecture with the technology services and development management teams.

 Lead technical design discussions working closely with Development and project team members to ensure documented requirements are being met within proposed solutions.

 Install, configure, maintain, and database systems, schema, tables, indexes, procedures, and permissions.

 Create backup / recovery of databases for MySQL.

 Ensure SQL Transactional Replication (Create / monitor / resolve) is occurring successfully.

 Track performance metrics of maintained databases; identify potential capacity / performance issues and resolve or recommend changes to meet business requirements.

 Conduct regular performance tuning, indexing, and normalization of database systems.

 Develop and test SQL scripts for task automation and reporting.

 Provide monitoring support for critical database servers and supporting services.

 Meet project deliverables for new and / or changes to existing technology within project requirements.

 Install/Migrate/Administrate MySQL to Mariadb.

 Ensure server downtime resulting from maintenance and improvements are limited to non-production hours whenever possible.

 Identify new opportunities that reduce costs while maintaining adequate functionality and support, improve technology performance and / or stability and improve existing processes therefore reducing effort or increasing productivity.

 Db patching and db upgrade/migrate. Resource monitoring and requirement analysis.

 Develop and document issue resolution knowledge base.

 Provide second and third level support for all database systems.

 Availability for on-call 24/7 support.

Position Requirements

 Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or other related discipline a plus.

 Minimum of five (5) years of experience in database administration.

 Minimum of four (3) years of administrator experience in an IT Enterprise organization which practiced ITIL methodologies.

 Thorough training and demonstrated analytical and technical skills in installing, configuring, integrating and administering MySQL within the Linux / LAMP stack.

 Experience including, but not limited to, MySQL, Mariadb, Linux RedHat, Apache, and PHP or other scripting languages.

 Hands-on experience supporting Highly Available (HA) database environments with solutions such as clustering. This should include supporting a (3) node MySQL cluster.

 Experience in systems engineering design, analysis, integration, and life-cycle engineering in support of large information systems projects.

 Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

 Ability to work as a team member in a fast paced environment.

 Ability to manage and communicate project tasks, status, and deadlines.

Preferred Qualifications

 Experienced in working within a multi-tiered architecture environment, supporting B2B and/or hosting operations.

 Experience with open-source software, including LAMP software bundle.

 Working knowledge in NoSQL/MongoDb