Lead MySQL Database Administrator

What's Exciting About the Role

Verifone is seeking an experienced MySQL lead who will be responsible for ensuring database performance, high availability, and security of clusters and single instances of MySQL instances. You will also be responsible for orchestrating upgrades, backups, HA/DR, and provisioning database instances. You will work closely with other teams, including application architects, senior developers, and application support engineers for architecture design and SQL optimization, establishing and documenting best practices.

We look for dedicated and versatile engineers who are passionate about working in a company whose culture is dedicated to delivering innovative software products that solve our customers’ most challenging business needs. As a Lead DBA, you’ll have the opportunity to make significant and direct impact on our database performance, applications, and solve some of the most complex challenges in cloud and on-prem environments, while leading the team from a technical and development perspective.

• Bucharest, Romania
• London, United Kingdom
• Riga, Latvia
• Warsaw, Poland

You will be responsible for ensuring that database management policies, processes and procedures are established and followed, adhering to ITIL good practice principles and are subjected to continuous improvement as per PCI standards. They will be responsible for reviewing system design changes to ensure they adhere to expected service standards and recommend changes to ensure maximum stability, availability and efficiency of the supported applications.

The candidate should understand the application functionality, business logics and work with application stakeholders to understand the requirement and discuss with new application features and propose the right solutions. He must liaise closely and work in collaboration with the release management teams, support teams and the infrastructure DBAs.

• Design, install, deploy, and manage MySQL on physical, virtual, AWS EC2 / RDS / Aurora.
• Build MySQL clusters with a high availability, active‑active cluster setup in large‑scale and multi‑datacenter environments having minimum RPO/RTO on a DR scenario.
• Design and implement uniform backup strategy and business continuity plans across the MySQL environments using Percona XtraDB or custom automation scripts with reliable monitoring and alerting mechanisms.
• Define thorough and validated database monitoring and alerting, along with documentation for future references.
• Setup high availability with master‑master / master‑slave replication.
• Maintain stable performance via server optimizations.
• Guide engineering teams to best practices on server configurations and SQL tuning.
• Maintain security and compliance via OS and database version upgrades.
• Work with application stakeholders to create effective database solutions.
• Create and maintain ad‑hoc reports.
• Adhere to the incident and change process, prepare thorough documentation, and peer review planned production tasks.
• Support application release process, and automations.
• Mentor and develop other engineers on MySQL skills.

• Minimum 8 years of experience managing MySQL.
• Experience with MySQL Active/Active cluster setup, database upgrade and migrations, scripting.
• Experience administrating MySQL on Linux platform.
• Experience with MySQL version upgrades in production environments with zero or very minimum application downtime.
• Experience with design & architecting MySQL environments using any framework such as Galera Cluster or Percona XtraDB.
• Experience deploying database monitoring using at least one of PMM, New Relic, Datadog, Nagios, Grafana, ELK, AppD, etc.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef.
• Proficiency with cloud infrastructure, AWS RDS or equivalent.
• Automation/scripting skills in a modern language like Python, shell scripting, Go, Java, Rust.
• Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, Git Lab.
• Advanced experience with database performance tuning including SQL tuning, hardware configuration and capacity planning.
• Strong technical leadership, mentoring and time management…