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Description
This position reports to the Manager of 24x7 Consultative Services. You will work remotely; there is no central office, and most people work from their homes. Some travel will be required for internal meetings. Access to a reliable high-speed internet connection is required. Most work is done in 8 hour shifts in the 22-6, 6-14 and 14-22 EST blocks.
You can work remotely from anywhere in the Eastern US timezones, but will need to be able to travel to company meetings, events, conferenes, etc.
Core skills
Polite, friendly and professional; this position is the first line of contact with customers. Knowledge of MySQL and InnoDB. Knowledge of Linux systems administration, including expertise on filesystems, hardware, and networking. Knowledge of LAMP technologies such as Apache, Memcached, and other popular F/OSS server software. General programming and scripting abilities. Proven success working in a distributed environment where e-mail, IRC and voice calls are the only interactions with clients, colleagues and managers on a daily basis. Excellent written and spoken English.
Desired skills
MySQL DBA, MySQL Developer and MySQL Cluster Certifications. Expert in transaction processing systems. Experience with tools from the Percona Toolkit suite. Supplemental MySQL technologies: XtraDB, XtraBackup, NDB Cluster, third-party storage engines and appliances, etc. Technologies such as LVS, Nginx, Sphinx, and load balancers. Knowledge of MySQL HA Solutions. Other operating systems such Windows, FreeBSD and Solaris. Programming languages and platforms, especially frameworks such as Java - Hibernate, Ruby On Rails and Django. Expert knowledge of other RDBMS (Oracle, Postgres, MS SQL Server, Drizzle). Experience with Galera / XtraDB Cluster.
