MySQL DBA position in San Francisco or Palo Alto

Please contact me if you are interested in learning more:

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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My client is owned by one of the nation's largest, innovative, billion dollar companies. They provide an online product that is the leading destination of its kind, targeting the audience of expecting parents. Millions of users use their product. They have received a lot of attention from the media, having been featured on CNN and CBS and in hundreds of articles, including in Fortune Magazine and The New York Times.
 
Their executive team have strong track records of success, with leading companies such as AOL, Time Inc., Neiman Marcus and Smith & Hawken.
 
Senior Database Administrator


The ideal candidate will have deep experience in working with large-scale databases in support of a high-traffic consumer website.  S/he will work with the development and operations teams to design, implement, and tune production quality databases.  This person must be a collaborative team payer that is open to new technology, is eager to learn, and is willing to work with others.  S/he is expected to apply their thirst for knowledge to produce high-end deliverables.

 

Experience/Education:
* 3 years of experience as MySQL DBA on Unix/Linux on MySQL 4.1 and/or 5.0
* Excellent knowledge and experience in InnoDB & MyISAM
* Experience in DB backup, recovery, replication, HA, etc.


Desired Skills:

* Experience as an Oracle DBA (RMAN, standby server)

* Excellent in SQL and scripting languages (Perl/Python/Unix Shells, etc.)

* Nagios monitoring work is a plus


Responsibilities

* DB maintenance, backup, and recovery
* DB monitoring, performance tuning
* Develop scripts for a variety of DB-related tasks
* DB replication setup
* Push DB schema and data changes

* Review and optimize SQL queries
* Support requests from product marketing teams, including writing SQL queries.

* 24/7 pager rotation