MySQL DBA position in San Francisco for a profitable and private company

Please contact me if you are interested in learning more information:

Abby Knight
EQQUS Technologies
555 Bryant Street, Suite 700
Palo Alto, CA 94301
650-234-1000 ext. 355
aknight@eqqus.com
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Are you looking for a smaller environment that has it’s act together and a place that you can make a difference?

You may have used my clients services last night when making plans or last weekend when getting a bunch of friends together.  They are private, profitable, on their way to being public and scaling globally right now.  Millions of people like you and me use their services every day and they have a strong establish ed and fast growing customer base.

They are right downtown off of a BART Station.  The company culture is down to earth, balanced, smart and collaborative.

They just brought MySQL into their environment and they could use your knowledge and expertise to scale and develop out their systems.

 

Title:  Database Administrator (MySQL)

As a database administrator, you will be responsible for database operations and performance, managing the database schema, creating and maintaining the data dictionary, ensuring data integrity and providing reporting data to business users.  We are looking for someone with several years experience as a DBA and with the desire to focus on the database architecture and application development area.  You will also monitor system health and performance, as well as be an on-call person for database issues.

 

Requirements:

3+ years hands-on experience with MySQL and SQL Server database administration application development

Experience in SQL database development

Good knowledge with reporting tools such as MS Access, Analysis Services and Reporting Services

Must have significant experience & ability to design for performance, and to perform root cause analysis for performance issues.

Must have experience with, and ability to perform failover in high availability MySQL and SQL Server environments by using log shipping, replication and database clustering.

Must have experience with, and ability to act as a database development architect and as a technical resource for software engineers

Must have experience with, and ability to support software engineers on high performance database schema design and data modeling, as well as optimizing queries

Must have experience with, and ability to evaluate existing database schema, structures and recommend improvements

Must have DBA experience managing MySQL and SQL Server in production/QA/dev environments including installation, configuration, backup, recovery, upgrades and schema changes, etc.

Must have experience with, and ability to quickly diagnose server problems and employ preventive measures to maintain high availability servers

Must have experience making decisions or recommendations on resolutions in critical down time situations

Must have experience with, and ability to develop and monitor backup and recovery processes

Must have experience generating reports. Must have ability to support business needs by translating department requests for reports into well-formed, optimized SQL queries

Must be familiar with a source control system such as CVS, Subversion, ClearCase, or similar systems.

Must have some experience working in a structured environment with a defined software development process.

Must have strong communication skills, verbal and written.

Must have significant experience working in a team environment.

Must have experience working with customers – both external and internal

 

Specific expertise that is of particular interest to us:

Security

SOX (Sarbanes/Oxley)

PCI (Credit Card security)