Datavail is seeking a highly skilled, self-motivated, and passionate MySQL and MariaDB DBA to join our MySQL and MariaDB Global Practice. As a DBA, you will be working on the latest Enterprise and Opensource technologies in the industry. This role requires strong technical database skills, but also requires excellent communication and collaborative skills to help drive customers and internal teams

Required Skills: 

9+ years overall IT experience, with min 6+ years on MySQL and MariaDB Product Suite Extensive experience in MySQL 5.7/8.x and MariaDB 10.4/10.5/10.6 both on-premises and Cloud Has supported large enterprise environments with complex datasets Worked in Clustered architecture like InnoDB cluster, Galera Cluster, etc Experience in MySQL and MariaDB Backup, Restores Experience in Advanced Monitoring Solutions Experience in Database migrations to the cloud Experienced in Advanced HA Solutions with MySQL, MariaDB and Percona Experienced in RDS and Aurora MySQL support Experience in Performance tuning in opensource databases Database Security best practice implementations Experience in Heterogenous migrations to MySQL/MariaDB Experienced in AWS, Azure, GCP and/or any cloud environment Experience in data modelling, schema design and optimization Planning and architecting database solutions  24 X 7 production support experience Knowledge of Linux and Windows Servers Clear Communication

General Experience in the following other areas is required: Worked in customer services environments or in Managed Service Providers/Professional Services Providers Extensive experience with installation, management, upgrades, backup and restore of large MySQL and MariaDB database system installations Experience benchmarking, clustering, and tuning the databases for performance, reliability, high availability, and scalability Ability to work with others collectivity, as a Team Scripting in Bash/Perl/JavaScript/Python Percona Toolkits, PMM, ProxySQL, Orchestrator, Max Scale etc MySQL, MariaDB and AWS, Azure Certifications is a plus  Candidate must either have Professional Certification or obtain within the first 90 days of employment Knowledge in HTAP and Distributed Database models is a plus Automation using Ansible Chef, Puppet or IaaC with Terraform/Cloud Formation, etc Preferable Kubernetes/Containers experience Must have strong analytical, verbal, and written communication skills Must have experience in MySQL database architecture, logical and physical design,    
Automation, documentation, shell scripting, Stored procedure programming, query tuning, system tuning, resource contention analysis, backup, and recovery, standby, replication, etc Must have substantial hands-on knowledge on AWS Cloud and Azure Cloud Understanding of PHP, Perl, and web application framework Good knowledge of ITIL Framework Ability to lead technical teams and run customer facing meetings Ability to lead teams to resolve technical challenges and ensure tasks are being completed appropriately Experience in an IT service-related supervisory and/or management position will be considered as an additional advantage