Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The AES Group is a premier technology consulting company that has been delivering innovative technology solutions for over 20 years. They are seeking an experienced Senior MySQL Database Administrator (DBA) to support enterprise-scale database environments, focusing on MySQL production, cloud platforms, and DevOps automation.
Responsibilities
- Administer and support MySQL production and development database environments
- Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly available database infrastructures
- Configure, manage, and troubleshoot MySQL replication environments
- Perform database performance tuning, query optimization, and capacity planning
- Implement backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and high availability solutions
- Perform MySQL patching, upgrades, and version migrations
- Support cloud-hosted databases including Azure and AWS managed database services
- Automate database administration tasks using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevOps tools
- Monitor database health using enterprise observability platforms
- Troubleshoot production database issues while ensuring maximum uptime and reliability
- Collaborate with architects, developers, and infrastructure teams on new database projects
- Participate in an on-call rotation to support critical production database incidents
- Drive continuous improvement through automation, standardization, and proactive monitoring
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience
- 5 7+ years of professional Database Administration experience
- Minimum 5 years of hands-on MySQL DBA experience supporting production environments
- Strong communication, analytical, and troubleshooting skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced enterprise environment
- MySQL production administration
- MySQL replication (setup, configuration, and troubleshooting)
- High Availability (HA)
- Disaster Recovery (DR)
- Backup and recovery
- Performance tuning
- Query optimization
- Production support
- Security administration
- MySQL patching and major version upgrades
- Percona Toolkit / XtraBackup
- Azure
- AWS
- Azure Database Services (Flexible Server preferred)
- AWS RDS
- Terraform
- Terragrunt
- GitHub Actions
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- CI/CD
- Grafana
- ELK
- Datadog
- Splunk
- Bash
- Python
- Ansible
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Cosmos DB
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Experience supporting enterprise multi-region and multi-zone database environments
- Strong focus on automation and operational excellence
- Experience implementing proactive monitoring and database observability solutions
- Knowledge of enterprise database lifecycle management
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