Responsibilities: (This includes, but is not limited to, advance to expert engineering and implementation of the following:)

    
• Manage, support, and maintain database technology and infrastructure, adhering to the architectural guidelines and policies.
    
• Database administration for off the shelf and internally developed applications, ensure continuous 24x7 operation and availability in support of mission-critical business applications, and participating in on-call rotation.
    
• Install, configure, monitor, upgrade, and maintain MySQL databases in production and non-production environments. 
    
• Support local/across the DC failover with a High Availability Disaster Recovery environment with MySQL native/cloud Replication. Participate in Database Maintenance and DR activities. 
    
• Write/maintain OS level scripts for DB automation and application maintenance. 
    
• Provide technical expertise and hands-on support in the consolidation and migration of databases to new hardware and platforms. 
    
• The physical implementation of databases, storage structures, high-availability solutions, replication, and disaster recovery solutions. 
    
• Proactive and reactive performance analysis, monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolution of escalated Level 2 and Level3 issues. 
    
• Regular database capacity planning related to database growth and system utilization, trend analysis, predictive future database resource requirements, and the structured organized reporting of the same.
    
• Work closely with another Infrastructure engineering, product development, business operations, and technical operations to ensure delivery of database services within the SLA’s and performance targets.
    
• Adapt business requirements, model data, and develop database specifications, tables, and element attributes. 
    
• Participate in the evaluation, selection, and implementation of DBA tools to improve the effectiveness of tasks such as performance monitoring and tuning, recovery, and database change management processing. 
    
• Ability to work well as a team and as an individual with minimal supervision. 

 
Qualification

    
• 3-5 years of DBA experience, managing MySQL databases, Versions 5.6 and onwards
    
• InnoDB Cluster Experience is a plus • Strong understanding of MySQL database fundamentals 
    
• Strong understanding of MySQL Native Replication fundamentals • Strong understanding of MySQL database security management 
    
• Should have UNIX platform skills and understanding of the network, storage, tiered application environments, and security.
    
• Knowledge of operating systems, Shell scripting, Perl/Python scripting is a plus 
    
• Knowledge of google big table or distributed database is a plus 
    
• Good interpersonal skills along with effective communication (both written and verbal) skills. 
    
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex systems and database environment issues. 
    
• Demonstrate the ability to work in a complex organization to determine business and customer needs, providing the best solution to meet those needs. 
    
• Work experience in a Financial Institute will be preferred.