MySQL DBA

Texas  ‐ Onsite
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The Talmadge Group has an awesome 6 month contract opportunity for a MySQL DBA for our client in North Dallas.  In this role, you will use your skills and past experience to work with a small team to deploy complex server deployments with a high emphasis on security, availability, and scalability.

Required Skills:
- Minimum of 2 to 4 years of MySQL administration
- Intermediate knowledge of LAMP and WAMP environments
- Experience configuring and troubleshooting replication
- Intermediate knowledge of MySQL performance tuning.
- Intermediate knowledge of SQL (joins, sub-queries, etc...)
- Ensure MySQL Servers run at optimal health; performance troubleshooting as necessary (resource profiling, index management, disk I/O, CPU, identify bottlenecks, etc...)
- Experience with InnoDB, MyISAM and other storage engines
- PHP/Perl and Bash Scripting experience required
- Excellent customer services skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to manage priorities in a fast paced changing environment

Desired Skills
- Previous 24x7 experience a plus
- Experience with MySQL Cluster a PLUS
- MySQL CMA certification is highly desired
- MySQL DBA and Developer certification a strong plus
- A four year degree is preferred

Essential Duties:
- Deploy and maintain complex MySQL environments
- Work with customers and vendors to deploy MySQL
- Assist with change management and documentation of customer environments
- Work with dedicated team to ensure success of select customer group
- Ensure customer uptime through precise monitoring implementations, good change management and incorporation of best practices
- Establish a great relationship with the customer by displaying expertise and offering best practices
- Install, configure, and maintain MySQL in customer environments
- Develop automation tools surrounding monitoring, performance and capacity planning
- Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation and night deployments, as needed
- Ability to motivate themselves and their team to do what is right by the customer
- Ability to troubleshoot and performance tune both Linux and MySQL

Start date
n.a
Duration
6 months
From
Talmadge Group
Published at
07.06.2012
Project ID:
373886
Contract type
Freelance
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