ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY:
FreeWheel is hiring a Senior Database Administrator reporting into the Operations Manager to help administer databases which drives mission critical line-of-business applications. This candidate will manage all changes to production databases by working with the Engineering team, providing guidance and properly coordinating these changes all while upholding a high Service Level Objective (99.99% uptime) commitment. Aside from the technical aspect, the ideal candidate is someone who is a fun addition to the team and is comfortable both giving and taking recommendations pertaining to the design of the production environment.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
•Responsible for reviewing all application changes that require database access
•Tune database parameters for performance, stability
•Maintain topology evolution slave replication consistency
•Enforce security and review database access permissions
•Design and maintain a fault tolerant Database HA solution
•Perform 12X7 on-call responsibilities
ABOUT YOU
•3+ years managing, tuning, backing up (full/incremental) MySQL databases replication cluster is must to have
•3+ years managing any one of SQLServer/MongoDB/Cassandra/DynamoDB/Aurora/ClickHouse/ ElasticSearch/ProgreSQL/Hive/Hadoop
•3+ years of SQL/ODBC/JDBC/Python/GoLang development experience
•Knowledge of practice in software development areas, such as GoLang, Python, CSS, JavaScript, Git, C/C++, Java.
•Experiences of Linux/Unix operations like: Debian,CentOS, basic network knowledges (Router, Switch, Firewall etc)
•Familiar with monitoring tools such as Nagios, ELK, Kibana/Grafana, Prometheus etc.
•Experienced at working with geographically distributed (WAN based) systems
•A working knowledge of InfluxDB, Ansible, Nginx, NetScaler, VPLS, GSLB, PureStorage, Cohesity is a plus
•Experienced at designing and building reliable, fault tolerant systems is a plus
•Good English, both written and verbal communication
•BS degree in CS/MIS or equivalent DBA experience