Job Summary 

The Senior DBA position will be responsible for maintaining the company’s database systems including back-up, performance tuning, capacity planning, monitoring and reporting critical events and documentation. This is a “hands-on” position requiring solid technical skills, as well as excellent interpersonal and communication skills. 

Responsibilities:

• Provision MySQL/MariaDB instances, both in clustered and non-clustered configurations 
• Configure and maintain database servers and processes, including monitoring of system health and performance, to ensure high levels of performance, availability, and security 
• Manage Production, QA and development database environments 
• Learn relevant business processes and understand the data flow, criticality, and dependencies 
• Allocate system storage and plan storage requirements for database systems 
• Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes 
• Perform periodic health checks and reports on database systems 
• Develop innovation, strategies, processes, and best practices 
• Configure and maintain Amazon Redshift clusters 
• Troubleshooting and resolving database integrity issues, performance issues, blocking and deadlocking issues, replication issues, log issues, connectivity issues, and security issues