MySQL DBA

Job DescriptionJob DescriptionMySQL DBA

My name is Bill Stevens and I have a new contract to hire MySQL DBA opportunity available for a major firm located in Holmdel, New Jersey and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania that could be of interest to you, please review my specification below.

The work schedule will be a hybrid one, two days a week in the firms Bethlehem, Pennsylvania office and three days a week remote.

The ideal candidate should also possess a green card or be of citizenship.

This position pays $90.00 per hour on a w-2 hourly basis or $100.00 per hour on a Corp basis. The Corp rate is for independent contractors only and not third-party firms. No Visa entanglements and no H1-B holding companies.

Must have skills:
10+ years of MySQL DBA experience
MySQL replication experience
SQL coding and tuning experience
Shell scripting and automation experience
MySQL Enterprise Manager experience
AWS/Cloud Services experience: EC2, RDS, and Aurora
Cloud deployments experience: Jenkins, Bitbucket, Terraform
Hands-on, technically adept DBA, capable of performing required DB tasks experience
Strong troubleshooting/performance tuning skills
Ability to assess and improve SQL performance
Understanding of MySQL’s underlying storage engines, such as InnoDB and MyISAM
Ability to Handle common database procedures, such as upgrade, backup, recovery, migration, etc.
Profile server resource usage, optimize and tweak as necessary
Expert level MySQL RDBMS installation/configuration, patching, troubleshooting, performance tracking/tuning, back-up/recovery, remote monitoring skills with hands-on experience in -large and very dynamic environments
Strong commitment to following SDLC/Change-Management principles
Self-starter and be able to perform work with minimal supervisory direction
Knowledge of data quality, data management, and data testing strategies and practices
Strong communication skills, both oral and written
Strong experience working with ticketing tools such as ServiceNow, Zenoss or any other monitoring tool, Cloud monitoring tools (CloudWatch, CloudTrail), AppDynamics (or similar APM tool)
Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
Analytical and structured approach to problem solving
Ability to accommodate flexible work schedules

Desired skills:
Ability to diagnose problems and triage/resolve issues across various tiers (application, network, database, server, or storage tiers)
Ability to implement automation to reduce manual administrative tasks through use of jobs, scripts, cron, or other techniques
Experience in DB2 UDB, Oracle, Postgres, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, and/or Cassandra is plus
Experience with configuration management tools: SCCM; Puppet; or Ansible.
Development or enhancement of training and upskilling programs
Bachelor’s Degree or similar required

The ideal candidate will be:
Be part of an on-call rotation providing 24x7x365 incident and outage response, including non-business hours changes
Perform initial investigation and/or troubleshooting of database and database system issues to resolve issue & determine root cause

The interview process will include an initial telephone or Zoom screening.

Please let me know your interest for this position, availability to interview and start for this position along with a copy of your recent resume.

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