MySQL Consultant Full Time Permanent

VTRAC Consulting Corporation

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Thank you for applying to VTRAC opportunities. Please e-mail your resume as a MS-WORD document in confidence Subject: Senior MySQL Consultant; JOB: ; Attention:  paris@vtrac.com

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Title:                                     Senior Database Administrator (MySQL)

Type:                                    Permanent

No. of Positions:                3

Location:                             Canada (Fully Remote)

Why you?

Are you a MySQL DBA who lives in the Canada? Are you community minded? Do you blog, contribute to the Open-Source community?  Are you inspired by ever-shifting challenges, constant growth and collaboration with a team of peers who push you constantly to up your game, we are actively shaping what it means to be an open-source database engineer and administrator, and we want you to be a part of the world’s top team of MongoDB, Cassandra, and MySQL professionals.

Responsibilities:

• As a MySQL Database Consultant (DBC) you will work as part of the open-source team and supply complete support for all aspects of database and application infrastructure to a variety of our customers.
• Our collaborative Mongo environment means everyone works together to solve complex puzzles and develop innovative solutions for our customers.
• You’ll work closely with the customer teams to understand their needs, in both a project based and long-term support capacity.
• You’ll create and document database standards, create optimized queries, indexes, and data structure.
• Monitor and support database environments and serve as an escalation point for complex troubleshooting and interactive production support.
• Use database vendor provided tools and internal developed accelerators to performance tune various database system, specific queries and applications scenarios.
• Diagnose and address database performance issues using performance monitors and various tuning techniques.
• Identify areas of opportunity and recommend appropriate improvement suggestions.
• Cross-functional training in NoSQL, Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps methodologies are encouraged.
• When you’re not fixing things, you’ll be authoring new blog posts on interesting topics for our open-source community to digest, creating new articles in our customer facing knowledge base for more frequently seen issues, and hosting webinars amongst other things like participating in conferences and meetups promoting the company to the open-source community.

Must Have:

• Knowledge and experience in installing, configuring and upgrading MySQL databases & tools relevant in MySQL Administration.
• Experience with scripting (bash/python)
• Automation technologies such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, SALT experience.
• Debugging skills and the ability to troubleshoot methodically, identifying and applying fixes for known errors, and when necessary, capacity to think outside of the box to resolve complex issues

What do you get in return?

• Competitive total rewards package including an annual bonus plan
• Outstanding people: Collaborate with the industry’s top minds.
• Substantial training allowance:Hone your skills or learn new ones; participate in professional development days, attend conferences, become certified, whatever you like!
• Work from home:This is a remote role, so you can be located anywhere in Canada the central time zone, all you need is a decent, stable internet connection.
• Community minded: Blog during work hours; take a day off andvolunteer for your favorite charity.