Sr. Analyst - Database Admin

• Perform all technical research, analysis, design and architecting of IT Database systems ensuring that the documented business and technical requirements are met and implemented to industry best practice standards.
• Drives short & long term architecture strategy for IT Database systems. Communicates and validates database architecture with the technology services and development management teams.
• Lead technical design discussions working closely with Development and project team members to ensure documented requirements are being met within proposed solutions.
• Install, configure, maintain, and database systems, schema, tables, indexes, procedures, and permissions.
• Create backup / recovery of databases for MySQL.
• Ensure SQL Transactional Replication (Create / monitor / resolve) is occurring successfully.
• Track performance metrics of maintained databases; identify potential capacity / performance issues and resolve or recommend changes to meet business requirements.
• Conduct regular performance tuning, indexing, and normalization of database systems.
• Develop and test SQL scripts for task automation and reporting.
• Provide monitoring support for critical database servers and supporting services.
• Meet project deliverables for new and / or changes to existing technology within project requirements.
• Install/Migrate/Administrate MySQL to Mariadb.
• Ensure server downtime resulting from maintenance and improvements are limited to non-production hours whenever possible.
• Identify new opportunities that reduce costs while maintaining adequate functionality and support, improve technology performance and / or stability and improve existing processes therefore reducing effort or increasing productivity.
• Db patching and db upgrade/migrate. Resource monitoring and requirement analysis.
• Develop and document issue resolution knowledge base.
• Provide second and third level support for all database systems.
• Availability for on-call 24/7 support.

Position Requirements :

• Bachelors degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or other related discipline a plus.
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience in database administration.
• Minimum of four (3) years of administrator experience in an IT Enterprise organization which practiced ITIL methodologies.
• Thorough training and demonstrated analytical and technical skills in installing, configuring, integrating and administering MySQL within the Linux / LAMP stack.
• Experience including, but not limited to, MySQL, Mariadb, Linux RedHat, Apache, and PHP or other scripting languages.
• Hands-on experience supporting Highly Available (HA) database environments with solutions such as clustering. This should include supporting a (3) node MySQL cluster.
• Experience in systems engineering design, analysis, integration, and life-cycle engineering in support of large information systems projects.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work as a team member in a fast paced environment.
• Ability to manage and communicate project tasks, status, and deadlines.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experienced in working within a multi-tiered architecture environment, supporting B2B and/or hosting operations.
• Experience with open-source software, including LAMP software bundle.
• Working knowledge in NoSQL/MongoDb