Senior MySQL DBA – Cloud & On-Prem Performance Expert

VOLTO Consulting; Englewood Cliffs (NJ); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

VOLTO Consulting is seeking a MySQL Database Administrator in New Jersey. The role focuses on installing, configuring, and maintaining MySQL environments, optimizing performance, and ensuring data integrity.

The candidate will manage replication, high availability, and backups across on-premises and AWS. The position requires strong Linux administration skills, experience with AWS services, and familiarity with monitoring tools.

Qualifications

• Experience with MySQL databases including installation, configuration, and maintenance.
• Proficiency in Linux administration is essential for troubleshooting and server management.
• Experience with performance tuning and backup/recovery processes.
• Familiarity with MySQL internals and storage engines.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, and maintain MySQL environments.
• Handle schema management, indexing, and optimize database performance.
• Manage MySQL replication and high-availability setups.
• Perform recovery operations and ensure data integrity.
• Participation in on-call rotation for production incidents.
• Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain MySQL, Redis, PostgreSQL databases in both on-premises and AWS environments.
• Manage replication solutions for each database based on application requirements for HA.
• Administer and optimize AWS managed services (RDS, Aurora, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, S3, EC2).
• Automate routine tasks using Ansible and AWS CloudFormation.
• Design monitoring and alerting with CloudWatch, PMM, Datadog, MonYog.
• Daily maintenance, health checks, capacity planning across environments.
• Collaborate with developers to design efficient schemas and optimize queries.
• Work with DevSecOps to apply security patches.
• Develop robust backup and disaster recovery strategies.
• Generate ad-hoc reports for internal teams.
• Shell scripting or Python proficiency.
• Linux administration proficient.

Skills

AWS Cloud Computing

Unix Administration

MySQL

Java EE Performance Tuning

Tools

Grafana

CloudWatch

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

VOLTO Consulting is seeking a MySQL Database Administrator in New Jersey. The role focuses on installing, configuring, and maintaining MySQL environments, optimizing performance, and ensuring data integrity.

The candidate will manage replication, high availability, and backups across on-premises and AWS. The position requires strong Linux administration skills, experience with AWS services, and familiarity with monitoring tools.