Senior MySQL Database Administrator

Base pay range

$80.00/hr - $110.00/hr

Sustainable Talent is partnering with Nvidia a global leader who's been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for over 25 years.

We are looking for a Senior Database Administrator Engineer to support our client's Software Infrastructure and Operations team. This is a W-2 full-time, contract role based in Santa Clara, CA. We offer competitive pay $80 - 110/hr based on factors like experience, education, location, etc. and provide full benefits, PTO, and amazing company culture!

• Provision MySQL instances: standalone, replication, cluster, HA configurations.
• Ensure performance, security, and availability of databases.
• Handle backup and recovery procedures.
• Perform general technical troubleshooting and give consultation to development/operations team.
• Maintain integrity of Databases across multiple instances as per agreed policies.
• Production & Preproduction deployment and troubleshooting support.
• Prepare documentation and specifications.
• Handle critical database procedures such as upgrade, recovery, migration, performance tuning.
• Profile server resource usage, optimize and tweak as necessary.
• Should be able to write shell/python scripts.
• Monitor DB infrastructure and able to do the performance tuning (server level, query etc) wherever required.
• Should have general understanding and working experience on NDB Cluster, Innodb Cluster etc.
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.

• 10+ years of experience in DBA Activities.

• Strong exposure in cloud technologies – OCI, MySQL Heatwave, AWS RDS etc.
• Strong proficiency in MySQL, Elasticsearch database management.
• Decent experience with recent versions of MySQL (5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 8.0,
  9) on prem and cloud.
• Good hands‑on experience of OCI, MySQL Heatwave, AWS etc.
• Understanding of MySQL's underlying storage engines.
• Experience with Innodb Cluster, HA, Replication configuration in MySQL.
• Experience with DB monitoring tools MySQL Enterprise, Datadog, Prometheus etc.
• Knowledge of de‑facto standards and best practices in MySQL.
• Should be good in Unix or Python shell scripting.
• Knowledge of MySQL features.
• Familiarity with another SQL/No
  
  SQL database such as Elasticsearch, Mongo
  
  DB, Oracle, Postgre
  
  SQL etc.
• Familiarity with configuration management tools like chef, ansible etc.
• Knowledge of limitations in MySQL and their workarounds in contrast to another popular relational database.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Git, Perforce etc.

• Oracle or Maria
  
  DB experience.
• Experience supporting large MySQL clusters or 2+ MySQL DBs.

Pay range and compensation package

We offer competitive pay $80 - 110/hr based on factors like experience, education, location, etc. and provide full benefits, PTO, and amazing company culture!

Equal Opportunity Statement

Sustainable Talent is a M/F+, disabled, and veteran equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer.

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