Senior MySQL Architect & Performance Lead

NTT Ltd.; Netherlands; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA in the Netherlands is seeking a MySQL engineer to support enterprise MySQL environments across on‑premises, hosted and cloud platforms. You will ensure database availability, performance, security and recoverability, while driving operational excellence.

The role covers monitoring, incident resolution, upgrades, backups, high availability, query optimisation and security, with opportunities to lead resilience testing and architecture initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience managing enterprise MySQL databases across on-prem, hosted and cloud platforms.
• Ensures database availability, performance, security and recoverability.

Responsibilities

• Monitor MySQL databases, replication, jobs, storage and capacity.
• Resolve database incidents and service requests.
• Perform installation, configuration, patching and version upgrades.
• Administer backup, restore and recovery processes.
• Configure and support replication, clustering and high availability.
• Analyse and optimise queries and database performance.
• Maintain user access, permissions, encryption and auditing controls.
• Support migrations between platforms or hosting models.
• Develop scripts and automation for operational database management.
• Participate in resilience and disaster-recovery testing.
• At senior levels, lead complex performance, corruption and recovery investigations.
• At L5, define architecture patterns, standards and lifecycle roadmaps.

Skills

MySQL administration

Replication & HA

Backup & recovery

Query optimization

Database security

Linux

Cloud-hosted MySQL

Scripting & automation

Job description

NTT DATA in the Netherlands is seeking a MySQL engineer to support enterprise MySQL environments across on‑premises, hosted and cloud platforms. You will ensure database availability, performance, security and recoverability, while driving operational excellence.

The role covers monitoring, incident resolution, upgrades, backups, high availability, query optimisation and security, with opportunities to lead resilience testing and architecture initiatives.