Mysql/Mariadb Database Administrator

• Administer, monitor, and maintain MySQL and MariaDB database environments supporting mission-critical enterprise applications
• Manage database availability, performance, security, capacity, replication, and recoverability across production and non-production environments
• Perform database patching, version upgrades, configuration tuning, maintenance windows, and post-change validation
• Support backup, restore, and disaster recovery procedures, including periodic testing and documentation of recovery steps
• Maintain database user access, privileges, service accounts, and administrative controls in alignment with security and change management practices
• Monitor and troubleshoot MariaDB replication topology, replication lag, failover readiness, and data consistency issues
• Diagnose and resolve database performance issues using query analysis, indexing, execution plans, connection/session analysis, slow query logs, and resource utilization metrics
• Proactively identify database bottlenecks, poorly performing jobs, storage constraints, and configuration risks before they impact availability
• Partner with Linux, application, middleware, and monitoring teams to resolve cross-platform performance issues
• Contribute to database modernization planning, including potential future migrations or platform changes
• Participate in a scheduled 24x7 on-call rotation for P1/P2 incident response and escalated production support
• Act as an escalation resource for tier 2/3 and advanced database incidents, including root cause analysis and corrective action planning
• Create and maintain runbooks, operational procedures, health check reports, change documentation, and knowledge articles
• Support data clone, refresh, and environment synchronization activities as part of regular maintenance cycles
• Communicate clearly with customer stakeholders, technical teams, and service delivery leadership during incidents, maintenance events, and ongoing operations

• Strong command of MySQL/MariaDB administration, replication, query tuning, indexes, stored procedures, logs, and configuration management
• Ability to move beyond reactive ticket handling and proactively manage platform health, risk, and reliability
• Ability to respond calmly and effectively during high-priority incidents, establish action plans, and drive issues to resolution
• Strong problem-solving skills across database, operating system, storage, application, and network layers
• Clear written and verbal communication with technical teams, service delivery leaders, and customer stakeholders
• Strong ability to document procedures, root cause analyses, runbooks, maintenance steps, and recurring health checks
• MySQL and MariaDB database platforms, including replication and high-availability operational patterns
• Linux/RHEL command-line administration sufficient to support database operations, log analysis, and system-level troubleshooting
• Monitoring and observability tools for database, operating system, application, and availability metrics
• Backup, restore, and disaster recovery tooling and procedures
• Ticketing, change management, incident management, and knowledge management systems
• ServiceNow experience is a plus
• Virtualized infrastructure experience, including VMware or similar enterprise virtualization platforms, is helpful

• ServiceNow experience is a plus
• Virtualized infrastructure experience, including VMware or similar enterprise virtualization platforms, is helpful

Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance in addition to discretionary bonuses