N-iX is a global company with Ukrainian roots that helps businesses across the world develop successful software products. Founded in 2002, N-iX has come a long way and increased its presence in eight countries spanning Europe, the US, and Latin America. Today, we are a strong community of 2,000+ professionals and a reliable partner for global industry leaders and Fortune 500 companies.
N-iX is looking for a Senior Database Administrator who can become a part of our team. Our Client is a financial technology company based in California, one of the leading companies in this sector, with a buy now, pay later service.
Requirements:
- 5 years of DBA experience
- Strong understanding and experience in MySQL administration
- AWS experience, ideally with prior DevOps AWS experience
- Knowledge and experience with managing/operating AWS Aurora, MySQL and ProxySQL, Kubernetes
Would be a plus:
- AWS S3 / AWS certification
- MySQL 5 to 8 migration experience
Responsibilities:
- Database Operations and Administration
- 24x7 reactive and proactive support for OLTP databases - hands-on monitoring and
support to keep our databases running at peak performance
- Always-on emergency support - around-the-clock availability to ensure problems are
resolved as quickly as possible.
- Incident management and root cause analysis services
- On-call runbooks, report cards, weekly health check, and monthly/quarterly operational
review
- Patching, upgrades, updates, scaling (e.g., capacity planning), backups and Disaster
Recovery/Business Continuity Plan support
- Project-based work (e.g., MySQL 5.x -> 8.0 upgrades)
- Performance tuning, training, optimization (e.g., SQL, DB parameter tuning, indexes,
table design, data partitioning recommendations, etc.)
- Data model change management reviews
- Prior knowledge and experience with managing/operating AWS Aurora MySQL and
Batch jobs performance tuning and migration
- Evaluate and tune batch pipelines (e.g., Airflow DAGs, Luigi, Apache Spark)
- Prior knowledge of Batch frameworks like Airflow, Luigi, Spark, experience working with data lake frameworks.
- Batch pipeline migration strategy and best practices support
- Hands-on batch pipeline migration support from MySQL DB to the data lake including
testing, performance tuning, and cut-over support.
We offer:
- Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible
- A competitive salary and good compensation package
- Personalized career growth
- Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)
- Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing
- Education reimbursement
- Memorable anniversary presents
- Corporate events and team buildings
- Other location-specific benefits