Company:
Tyler Technologies, Inc.
Location: Overland Park
Closing Date: 27/10/2024
Salary: £125 - £150 Per Annum
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description
Senior Database Engineer - MySQL
Location: Overland Park, Kansas
Responsibilities
- Contribute to building architecture and lifecycle models and strategies for on-premise and AWS MySQL environments
- Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain/administer MySQL clusters
- Work with service consumers to coordinate periodic DB management operations and upgrades
- Provide recommendations and execute planned adjustments for optimizing performance on all MySQL database instances
- Manage monitoring of the MySQL footprint using Percona Monitoring
- Manage replication administration and monitoring for the MySQL footprint
- Act as subject matter expert for troubleshooting and resolving MySQL service and performance issues
- Perform on-call rotations, serving as MySQL SME and initial contact for other DB platforms
- Perform administrative tasks in the MySQL environment including but not limited to user administration, permissions, schema and instance creation, security adjustments, storage administration, backup/recovery, and service tickets
- Collaborate with service consumers to optimize database design and queries
- Create basic automation scripts (bash, perl, python)
- Jenkins and GitHub experience is a plus
- Additional responsibilities as assigned by Manager
- Some travel may be required
Qualifications
- Proactive and thorough communication skills with teammates, service consumers, and management are required to succeed in this role
- 5+ years supporting, maintaining, and administering MySQL clusters in an environment of 30 or more databases
- Strong experience with MySQL 5.7-8.0 and its derivatives
- Strong experience with redHat Linux (or derivatives)
- Intermediate experience scripting in bash, perl, and/or python
- Must be able to participate in on-call rotation
- Must have experience and be able to support operational tasks such as patching and administration that may be done outside of conventional business hours
- Should have experience in a 24x7x365 enterprise environment meeting uptime SLAs of 99.99% or greater
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