Senior MySQL Database Administrator CodeRyte

The Senior MySQL DBA will implement and manage an enterprise level MySQL installation and administer a variety of production, development and QA databases. This role will develop and implement MySQL database standards and will perform installations and schema alterations, contribute to disaster recovery design, warehousing initiatives and tool selection. This individual must have been through successful data warehouse projects and successfully utilized an ETL tool. This is an ideal opportunity for someone to utilize his/her expertise with MySQL database in a critical and highly visible role.

Responsibilities:

? Optimize existing schemas and new schema changes and generate new and innovative ideas to assist with database development.
? Assist with data modeling, planning, designing and implementing a high quality Data Warehouse production environment.
? Estimate MySQL database capacities; develop methods for monitoring database capacity and usage.
? Establish mechanisms for data backup/restore of relational databases; provide restoration services as needed.
? Develop/Automate scripts to verify and monitor health/integrity of databases and process/load data into Data Warehouse.
? Identify and evaluate tools and services for managing database infrastructure.
? Support MySQL database replication.

Requirements:

? Proven database-engineering experience in large, high-volume, high-availability mission-critical production databases.
? Demonstrated experience with relational database performance tuning and capacity planning especially on MySQL based environments.
? Experience with data warehouse design and processing and with loading data into Data Warehouse.
? Minimum 5 years experience as a DBA or equivalent.
? Experience managing multiple tasks in a fast paced environment.
? Deep knowledge of Linux, MySQL tuning and performance optimization.
? Experience providing support in a 24x7 environment and willing to be on-call for production escalations.
? Understanding of XML and related technologies is highly preferable.

Location:	7500 Old Georgetown Road Suite 800 Bethesda, MD 20814 United States