Senior MySQL DBA - Production Reliability & Performance

PowerSchool; Región Centro; On-site; MXN 609,000 - 730,000; Full time

Job summary

PowerSchool in Mexico is seeking a Sr Database Administrator with strong MySQL experience to support production database environments. The role focuses on administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, performance tuning, backups, recovery, and continuous improvement of critical databases.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years of hands-on MySQL production experience, expertise in performance tuning, replication/high availability, and scripting.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of production database administration experience.
• Strong SQL troubleshooting and query optimization skills.
• Experience with MySQL and high availability concepts.
• Proficient scripting skills and cross‑platform OS knowledge.
• Professional English communication.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support production MySQL database environments.
• Monitor availability, performance, capacity, security and resources.
• Troubleshoot slow queries, indexing, locking, and performance issues.
• Analyze queries and execution plans for improvements.
• Manage upgrades, patches, maintenance, and config changes.
• Support backup, restore, DR, replication, and HA procedures.
• Investigate incidents and perform root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with engineering and cloud teams to optimize performance.
• Develop automation scripts for routine DBA tasks.
• Maintain documentation and operational standards.

Skills

SQL troubleshooting

Query optimization

MySQL

High availability

Scripting

Linux/Windows

English communication

Tools

MySQL

SQL Server

Oracle

MongoDB

AWS RDS

Job description

PowerSchool in Mexico is seeking a Sr Database Administrator with strong MySQL experience to support production database environments. The role focuses on administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, performance tuning, backups, recovery, and continuous improvement of critical databases.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years of hands-on MySQL production experience, expertise in performance tuning, replication/high availability, and scripting.