Location: Sydney, Australia (minimum of 3 days on-site)
Job Description:
- Build, scale and administer Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL infrastructure with a focus on the performance, high availability and growth needs of the Client.
- Improve and optimize database administration and management with coding and automation.
- Support day-to-day operations and escalations of the database systems.
- Contribute to meeting KPIs and SLAs through management of task queues.
- Support large-scale global disaster recovery exercises while working closely with Client’s infrastructure, production and business teams.
- Troubleshooting, fault-isolation and communication across the infrastructure, applications and business teams.
- Participate in a rotational on-call schedule (follow-the-sun, including morning and afternoon handovers between locations).
- Perform project work including but not limited to:
- Provide operational support with Database Platform deployments (including DevOps)
- Design, review, enhance and implement new database automations
- Performance analysis of overall database workplace
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues escalated by the L1 team
- Identify repeat issues and trends, work with Client's engineering teams to scope monitoring and/or automation to prevent or auto-remediate problems
Requirements:
- Experience in providing DBA support for medium/large number of Microsoft SQL and MySQL databases.
- Basic experience in other database engines is a plus.
- Experience with:
- AlwaysOn Clustering and Replication for SQL Server
- InnoDB clustering and native replication for MySQL
- Performance Tuning and troubleshooting
- Backup, restoration and disaster recovery solutions
- Security monitoring and hardening of databases
- Experience with Linux and Windows Server operating systems.
- Experience coding in at least two of the following languages: Python, PowerShell, PHP or Ruby.
- Hands-on experience using Chef or Puppet.
- Ability to work independently with minimal direction.
- Highly organized and detail-oriented with strong troubleshooting ability.
- Have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Be a creative problem solver with project planning skills and a desire to learn new technologies.
📌 Database Engineer (Sydney)
🏢 Recognized
📍 Sydney
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