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NMI is seeking a Senior Database Administrator with MySQL experience who is passionate about running applications in an exceedingly high availability environment within our SRE organization. This opportunity to work with similarly skilled professionals in a rapidly growing environment offers opportunities to level-up observability and automation skills while maintaining a series of databases across multiple key products. The SRE team is responsible for the operation of all hardware and software within the production and office environments.
Job Responsibility:
Own the design, maintenance, and ongoing improvement of NMI’s MySQL database estate, including restructuring database resources to meet performance, redundancy, and reliability goals
Maintain and administer Microsoft SQL Server environments
Manages and monitors all databases across multiple platforms
Contribute to the design and evolution of database architecture
Participate in an on-call rotation for database related incidents
Test, document and continuously improve database performance across the enterprise
Perform incident root cause analysis, identify preventative measures, and participate in blameless post-incident reviews
Collaborate with developers to resolve performance issues and support database-related enhancements
Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders across the company
Respond to and resolve or escalate any database-related problems within internal and customer facing SLAs as part of an on-call rotation
Requirements:
5+ years of DBA knowledge and experience with MySQL 8.0+
Experience performing database patches and major version upgrades
Experience in High Availability, Replication, Disaster Recovery, and Backup
Skilled in database design and architecture
Excellent troubleshooting skills and instincts
Some understanding and experience of both Linux and Windows in a production environment
Production experience with MHA, Galera, or Orchestrator
Production experience with Group and transactional replication
Nice to have:
Experience with Microsoft SQL Server 2019+
Experience administering or provisioning cloud hosted databases such as Aurora RDS
Experience with No-SQL, OLAP, or data streaming and data lakes
MySQL or MSSQL certifications
Understanding of Infrastructure components and requirements outside of the database environment such as systems or networking
Experience working with toolchains such as Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, and Gitla