Senior DBA (MySQL / AWS Aurora)

San Jose, CA, US • Posted 2 days ago • Updated 2 days ago

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Database
MySQL
AWS Aurora
RDS
Amazon Web Services
Aurora
AWS RDS
partitioning
rollups
offline storage
ETL
DBA

Summary

We’re looking for a DBA who is a strong MySQL expert with hands-on experience operating and optimizing AWS Aurora (RDS) in production.

High-level needs / responsibilities

Diagnose and optimize slow queries (query profiling, execution plans, schema/index tuning)
Identify and remediate database performance bottlenecks (index strategy, parameter tuning, workload analysis)
Design an archiving/purging strategy to reduce overall database size while maintaining data integrity and access needs
Establish/validate operational best practices (monitoring, alerting, backup/restore, performance baselines)
Plan and execute Aurora MySQL engine upgrades, including blue/green deployments to minimize or eliminate downtime

Required skills

Strong MySQL performance tuning experience (query plans, query optimization, indexing, transactions/locking)
Strong diagnostics toolkit (EXPLAIN/EXPLAIN ANALYZE, slow query log, Performance Schema, cloud monitoring)
AWS Aurora/RDS operations experience (blue/green, parameter groups, replicas, failover behavior, maintenance windows)
Experience designing retention/archival approaches for large datasets (partitioning, rollups, offline storage, ETL as needed)
Ability to document and execute change plans safely (runbooks, risk mitigation, rollback strategies)

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Position Id: 8870491
Posted 2 days ago

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