Own and manage relational database environments across development and production. Ensure uptime, performance, resiliency, and data protection. Optimize queries, schemas, and indexing for large-scale efficiency.
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Job Opportunity: Senior MySQL Database Administrator
Location:100% Remote
Duration: Contract
Key Responsibilit
yPosition Descriptio
- Own lifecycle of relational database environments across dev–pro
- Ensure uptime, performance, resiliency, and data protectio
- Monitor systems; prevent, detect, and resolve issues proactivel
- Manage backups, recovery, upgrades, and migrations with minimal disruptio
- Optimize queries, schemas, and indexing for efficiency at scal
- Support high-availability and replication architecture
- Enforce access control, encryption, and audit readines
- Partner with engineering on schema design, ETL, and data workflow
- Contribute to capacity planning and infrastructure decision
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Required Skill
- 5+ years production database administration (large-scale datasets
- Strong SQL (complex queries, procedures, indexing, partitioning
- Deep knowledge of storage engines, transactions, and concurrenc
- Experience with replication, clustering, and failover strategie
- Backup/recovery expertise and disaster recovery executio
- Performance tuning (query analysis, configuration optimization
- Familiarity with monitoring/alerting tools and metrics (latency, uptime
- Scripting for automation (e.g., Python, Bash
- Strong troubleshooting, communication, and incident response skill
- Ability to participate in on-call rotation
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sBonus Skill
- Experience with distributed or clustered database framework
- Exposure to observability platforms and performance dashboard
- Compliance/security standards familiarity (data protection, audits
- Data pipeline / ETL support experienc
- Prior mentoring or technical leadershi
- Relevant database certification
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