Senior Database Administrator

Times Internet; Dadri; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital products company in India is looking for a Database Professional. This role involves the design, implementation, and operational management of database systems primarily using MySQL/MariaDB and MongoDB. The ideal candidate should possess extensive experience with database optimization, infrastructure management, and must be adept at addressing operational challenges. A good understanding of AWS and related tools is desired. Join us in enhancing our digital platforms and ensuring robust database performance.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience on MySQL/MariaDB and related tools.
• Experience on MongoDB NoSQL and Cache (RedisDB) datastores.
• Working experience on AWS infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement MySQL/MariaDB backend systems.
• Provide operational support for database services.
• Optimize database queries for performance.

Skills

MySQL/MariaDB RDBMS

MongoDB NoSQL

Cache (RedisDB)

AWS

Database optimization

Bash Shell Scripting

Tools

Percona Xtrabackup

Percona-tool-kit

Maria Backup

Hadoop Technologies

Job description

Overview

Times Internet is the largest digital products company and the digital venture of Times of India, India's largest media and entertainment group. TIL websites are among the fastest growing Web / Mobile based networks worldwide. Since its inception in 1999, Times Internet has led the Internet revolution in India and has emerged as India's foremost web entity, running diverse portals and niche websites.

About the Business Unit

System & Network Admin:

IT service provider to all the business within Times internet.

Role Summary

The Database Professional will participate in the design, implementation, automation, optimization and ongoing operational administration related tasks backend system running on MySQL/MariaDB/ MongoDB/RedisDB/Hadoop database infrastructure. Candidates should be ready to take the instant support/operational challenges of infrastructure platforms running database services.

Job Specifications

• Hands-on experience on MySQL/MariaDB RDBMS and related tools like Percona Xtrabackup,Percona-tool-kit & Maria Backup etc.
• Hands-on experience on MongoDB NoSQL and Cache(RedisDB) datastores
• Hands-on experience working on Private as well Public IT Infrastructure clouds like AWS.
• Hands-on experienceExperience on the optimization of database SQL or No-SQL queries.
• Should have working experience on implementing best optimised and secure practices for RDS, NoSQL and Cache database stores
• Should have working experience on infra-resource planning, database upgrades/patching, backup/recovery and database troubleshooting.
• Should have working experience on all database support activities like Replication, Scalability, Availability, Performance tuning/optimisations on the database servers running large volumes of data
• Should have working experience on building highly scalable schema design for the application using No-SQL, RDBMS and Cache databases
• Good to have experience on Hadoop Technologies like HDFS, Hive, Flume, Hadoop, Spark etc.
• Good to have knowledge on Cassandra distributed database management system
• Good to have experience writing Bash Shell Scripts.