Database Administrator – MySQL
Sentinel Cybersecurity
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: India
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About the role
- Build, scale, and administer a large fleet of database clusters
- Monitor and troubleshoot critical performance bottlenecks
- Review and assess the impact of database schema design
- Ensure that databases are secured, maintained, backed up, and highly available
- Review stress testing results and provide recommendations
- Automate anomaly detection to surface databases with failures, IOPS, deadlocks, etc.
- Automate management tasks, streamline processes, and perform standard administrative functions with Python-based tooling
- Build monitoring and observability systems with Prometheus, Grafana
- Drive SLIs/SLOs/SLAs for database reliability and uptime
- Implement Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, and Kubernetes
- Develop CI/CD pipelines for schema and infrastructure automation with Jenkins and GitLab CI
- Collaborate with DevOps, data engineering, and analytics teams to deliver resilient data solutions
Requirements
- 4+ Years of relevant industry work experience
- Understanding of MySQL’s (8.0+) underlying storage engines like InnoDB
- Knowledge of Performance and scalability issues with MySQL
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and optimization skills
- Strong experience with MySQL HA using Orchestrator/ProxySQL/Consul/Pacemaker
- Good understanding of monitoring requirements with deep knowledge of observability stacks like Prometheus and Grafana
- Experience in administering Linux-based systems
- Experience with configuration management like Puppet/Ansible/Kubernetes
- Knowledge of limitations in MySQL and their workarounds
- Strong multi-cloud experience (GCP, Azure)
- Strong automation experience with at least 1 language, ‘Python/Ruby/Perl/Go’ and ‘SQL’ scripting
- Commitment to security, compliance, and operational excellence
Benefits
- Competitive salaries
- Medical insurance and healthcare benefits for you and your family
- Fully paid premiums for life insurance
- Flexible hours and PTO
- Mental wellness platform subscription
- Gym reimbursement
- Childcare reimbursement
- Group term life insurance
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
MySQLPythonTerraformAnsiblePuppetKubernetesJenkinsGitLab CIPerformance optimizationAutomation
Soft skills
analytical skillstroubleshootingoptimizationcollaborationcommitment to securityoperational excellence