Database Administration (DBA)

Динамично развивающаяся IT компания ищет опытного Database Administration в команду!

The engineering team at illumin is growing, and we are looking to add a talented DBA to our family. We are looking for a database administrator with a DevOps mindset for automation and problem solving who can drive the technical direction for database ecosystem. You will be responsible for mission critical databases running in our own data centers, on our own hardware (no public cloud!) handling millions of transactions per second with millisecond latency, doesn’t that sound exciting?

What You Will Do

• Troubleshoot and resolve issues of any complexity related to their MySQL environments.
• Perform technical work that requires planning and scheduling to ensure the best possible solution is delivered on time.
• React on incidents and provide solutions aiming at maintained environment improvements.
• Work in a fast-paced environment where we are responsible for Acuity’s most critical systems.
• Mentor and guide other engineering colleagues, helping to breakdown knowledge silos and lead all teams to succeed.
• Serve as a point of technical escalation for difficult problems.

Your Technical Experience

• 2-5 years of experience working with MySQL Databases, including the community edition.
• Knowledge/expertise administering both OLTP and OLAP systems.
• In-depth knowledge of MySql configuration best practices.
• Advanced understanding of Linux OS: RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu and/or Debian.
• Deep understanding of database systems performance.
• Understand automation concept preferably with experience in tooling such as Ansible and Terraform.
• Advanced knowledge on InnoDB internals.
• Expert knowledge of Performance Schema.
• Hands-on experience with schema management and related tooling.
• Knows how to optimize queries/schemas to enhance the overall experience for our customers and developers.
• Deep understanding of replication and clustering.
• Comfortable designing and implementing HA and backup solutions and strategies.
• Knows proxy usage as it relates to MySQL.

Your Abilities and Attributes

• You are comfortable working in an on-premise environment with both virtual and physical hardware.
• Ability to individually assess developer/environment impact for changes being requested.
• Ability to review, approve and offer feedback on plans/designed created by others.
• Define runbooks that improve efficiency of all teams.
• Ability to identify skill/knowledge gaps and will proactively ask for help when required.
• Skilled at mining information from in-house documentation and the internet