Senior MySQL Architect: Performance & HA Expert

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

SmartRecruiters, Inc. seeks a hands-on Oracle MySQL Database Architect for designing and maintaining scalable MySQL architectures in production environments. You will lead installations, upgrades, migrations, and performance tuning to ensure reliability and high availability.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years of MySQL DBA/Architecture experience, strong Linux/Unix skills, and familiarity with replication, backup, and DR strategies, with optional cloud exposure on AWS or Azure.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of MySQL Database Administration/Architecture experience.
• Hands-on with MySQL, SQL, indexing and query optimization.
• Experience with replication, InnoDB, HA/DR and backups.
• Experience migrating/upgrading databases in production environments.
• Strong Linux/Unix operational knowledge.
• Nice to have AWS or Azure cloud experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable MySQL database architectures.
• Hands-on MySQL installation, configuration, upgrades and migrations.
• Perform database performance tuning and troubleshooting.
• Design and manage HA, replication, backup and DR solutions.
• Collaborate with development and infrastructure teams on best practices.
• Monitor database health, capacity, security and availability.
• Troubleshoot complex production database issues.

Skills

MySQL DBA/Architect

SQL performance tuning

InnoDB & replication

HA/DR & backups

Linux/Unix

AWS/Azure cloud

Job description

SmartRecruiters, Inc. seeks a hands-on Oracle MySQL Database Architect for designing and maintaining scalable MySQL architectures in production environments. You will lead installations, upgrades, migrations, and performance tuning to ensure reliability and high availability.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years of MySQL DBA/Architecture experience, strong Linux/Unix skills, and familiarity with replication, backup, and DR strategies, with optional cloud exposure on AWS or Azure.