• Salary, Bonus, Comprehensive Benefit and Retirement Programs. 
• Local candidates preferred. Client will consider a non-local candidate only if they have very strong ties to the position location and are committed to moving.
• This is direct hire role.

Location:  Natick, MA
 

This MySQL DBA Position Involves the Following Responsibilities:

• Participate in database design and architecture to support application development projects
• Develop, implement, and maintain change control and testing processes for database modifications
• Develop best practices for database design and development activities
• Research and recommend  application/database products, hardware and software   in support of development efforts
• Diagnose and resolve application and database access and performance issues
• Develop and maintain views, functions, scripts, stored procedures and triggers to support application development
• Identify and contribute to performance tuning of key queries
• Analyze trends in key database metrics and provide solutions as necessary
• Ensure database performance meets the needs of the business
• Contribute to the maintenance and support of data setup/teardown for our testing infrastructure
• Suggest development and testing tools to help with maintaining well performing systems
• Perform space management and capacity planning for database systems
• Ensure back-up and archival processes meet the needs of the business
• Monitor and analyze databases to achieve optimum performance and high availability
• Coordinate and support upgrades to existing databases
• Provide training on query development best practices and query tuning from both an application coding and database perspective
• Provide rotating on call support in a 24 x 7 production environment

Who Will Be a Great Fit?  

• 3+ years experience with MySQL database administration
• Experience with MySQL rel. 5.5 or later
• Experience with software application server variables  
• Knowledge of stored procedure writing, query optimization, and indexes
• Knowledge of database performance tuning techniques
• Experience working in Linux / Unix operating system environments
• Experience with scripting and automation
• Experience with best practices around database operations
• Knowledge of principles of database design

email us directly to:  resumes@GreatBayStaffing.com