Senior MySQL DBA - High-Performance, Replication & Backups

Itransition Group; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

English courses online

Corporate events

Gym membership

Paid sick leave

Remote work options

Flexible working hours

Career development

Job summary

Itransition Group is seeking an experienced DataBase Administrator to join our team. You will manage and optimize MySQL databases for mission-critical applications, ensuring high availability, performance, and reliability.

You will collaborate with development teams on schema design and query optimization. The ideal candidate has 3+ years of DBA experience, strong knowledge of backup/recovery, replication, and familiarity with distributed teams.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of working experience as DataBase Administrator
• Significant experience in using MySQL for mission-critical applications
• In-depth knowledge of MySQL backup/recovery and replication
• Desirable knowledge of MySQL clustering technologies (Galera)
• SQL and query optimisation techniques for diagnosing and preventing performance problems
• Assist development teams with database design and schema modifications
• Expert understanding of high-performance MySQL (>50k QPS)
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Snowflake and Clickhouse

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimise MySQL databases for mission-critical applications
• Assist development teams with database design and schema modifications
• Ensure backup, recovery and replication strategies are robust
• Collaborate with distributed teams to maintain high performance
• Monitor and tune SQL queries to prevent performance problems

Skills

DBA experience

SQL optimisation

English proficiency

Remote collaboration

Tools

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Redis

MongoDB

Snowflake

Clickhouse

Galera Cluster

Ansible

Helm

GCP

AWS

Job description

Itransition Group is seeking an experienced DataBase Administrator to join our team. You will manage and optimize MySQL databases for mission-critical applications, ensuring high availability, performance, and reliability.

You will collaborate with development teams on schema design and query optimization. The ideal candidate has 3+ years of DBA experience, strong knowledge of backup/recovery, replication, and familiarity with distributed teams.