MySQL DBA

My name is Bill Stevens and I have a new contract to hire MySQL DBA opportunity available for a major firm located in Holmdel, New Jersey and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania that could be of interest to you, please review my specification below and I am available at any time to speak with you so please feel free to call me. The work schedule will be a hybrid one, two days a week in the firms Bethlehem, Pennsylvania office and three days a week remote.

The ideal candidate should also possess a green card or be of citizenship.

This position pays $90.00 per hour on a w-2 hourly basis or $100.00 per hour on a Corp basis. The Corp rate is for independent contractors only and not third-party firms. No Visa entanglements and no H1-B holding companies.

Must have skills:

10 years of MySQL DBA experience

MySQL replication experience

SQL coding and tuning experience

Shell scripting and automation experience

MySQL Enterprise Manager experience

AWS/Cloud Services experience: EC2, RDS, and Aurora

Cloud deployments experience: Jenkins, Bitbucket, Terraform

Hands-on, technically adept DBA, capable of performing required DB tasks experience

Strong troubleshooting/performance tuning skills

Ability to assess and improve SQL performance

Understanding of MySQL’s underlying storage engines, such as InnoDB and MyISAM

Ability to Handle common database procedures, such as upgrade, backup, recovery, migration, etc.

Profile server resource usage, optimize and tweak as necessary

Expert level MySQL RDBMS installation/configuration, patching, troubleshooting, performance tracking/tuning, back-up/recovery, remote monitoring skills with hands-on experience in -large and very dynamic environments

Strong commitment to following SDLC/Change-Management principles

Self-starter and be able to perform work with minimal supervisory direction

Knowledge of data quality, data management, and data testing strategies and practices

Strong communication skills, both oral and written

Strong experience working with ticketing tools such as ServiceNow, Zenoss or any other monitoring tool, Cloud monitoring tools (CloudWatch, CloudTrail), AppDynamics (or similar APM tool)

Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills

Analytical and structured approach to problem solving

Ability to accommodate flexible work schedules

Desired skills:

Ability to diagnose problems and triage/resolve issues across various tiers (application, network, database, server, or storage tiers)

Ability to implement automation to reduce manual administrative tasks through use of jobs, scripts, cron, or other techniques

Experience in DB2 UDB, Oracle, Postgres, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, and/or Cassandra is plus

Experience with configuration management tools: SCCM; Puppet; or Ansible.

Development or enhancement of training and upskilling programs

Bachelor’s Degree or similar required

The ideal candidate will be:

Be part of an on-call rotation providing 24x7x365 incident and outage response, including non-business hours changes

Perform initial investigation and/or troubleshooting of database and database system issues to resolve issue & determine root cause

The interview process will include an initial telephone or Zoom screening.

Please let me know your interest for this position, availability to interview and start for this position along with a copy of your recent resume or please feel free to call me at any time with any questions.

Regards

Bill Stevens

Senior Technical Recruiter

PRI Technology

Denville, New Jersey 07834

973-354-2799

Bill.Stevens@PRITechnology.com

www.PriTechnology.com