Database Administrator
MindlanceNew Jersey, United States
Posted March 14, 2016
Full Time
About the Company
Mindlance is a national recruiting company which partners with many of the leading employers in the Life Sciences, IT, and Financial Services sectors.
Job Description
Mindlance is seeking a Database Administrator to work as a lead DBA for 12+ months on a contract basis. The ideal candidate will have hands-on production database administration skills, deep technical expertise in MySQL, and experience with Linux servers.
Requirements
- BS degree or higher in Computer Science
- 5+ years hands-on database administration experience on MySQL Databases deployed on Linux servers
- Sound understanding on installation, configuration, patching, supporting and upgrading MySQL servers
- Strong understanding on MySQL backup and recovery strategies
- Familiar with MySQL Enterprise backup and recovery tools
- Strong understanding on MySQL replication including multi data-center replication for High Availability
- Good with query tuning and Performance Optimization
- Minimum 3+ yrs experience as Production Database Administrator
- Good with MySQL Stored procedures and functions
- Good exposure to linux operating system
- 3+ years of experience on writing linux shell scripts, perl scripts, etc.