Remote Oracle MySQL Architect — HA & Performance

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Parsippany-Troy Hills (NJ); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SmartRecruiters, Inc. is seeking an experienced Oracle MySQL Database Architect for a remote, long-term contract in the USA. The role focuses on design, tuning, high availability, and production database environments.

You will design scalable MySQL architectures, manage installations and migrations, optimize performance, and implement HA/DR solutions while collaborating with development and infrastructure teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of MySQL database administration/architecture.
• Strong hands-on experience with MySQL, SQL, indexing, and performance tuning.
• Experience with MySQL replication, InnoDB, HA/DR, backups and recovery.
• Linux/Unix expertise; cloud experience (AWS/Azure) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable MySQL database architectures.
• Hands-on installation, configuration, upgrades, and migrations.
• Performance tuning, optimization, and troubleshooting.
• Design and manage HA, replication, backup, and disaster recovery.
• Collaborate with development and infrastructure teams on DB design.
• Monitor database health, capacity, security, and availability.
• Troubleshoot production database issues.

Skills

MySQL Administration

SQL & Query Optimization

Replication & HA/DR

Linux/Unix

Cloud AWS/Azure

Job description

SmartRecruiters, Inc. is seeking an experienced Oracle MySQL Database Architect for a remote, long-term contract in the USA. The role focuses on design, tuning, high availability, and production database environments.

You will design scalable MySQL architectures, manage installations and migrations, optimize performance, and implement HA/DR solutions while collaborating with development and infrastructure teams.