Senior DBA Engineer

Date Posted: 12/09/2025

Hiring Organization: Rose International

Position Number: 494368

Industry: IT Company/Software

Job Title: Senior DBA Engineer

Job Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA, 95050

Work Model: Onsite

Shift: 8 - 5 Pacific

Employment Type: Temporary

FT/PT: Full-Time

Estimated Duration (In months): 7

Min Hourly Rate($): 80.00

Max Hourly Rate($): 110.00

Must Have Skills/Attributes: AWS, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL

Experience Desired: MySQL Database Administration experience (10 yrs); Strong proficiency in MySQL, Elasticsearch database management (10 yrs)

**C2C is not available**

Job Description

*** This role is supporting NVIDIA ***

Looking for a world-class DBA to join its Software Infrastructure and Operations team. The position will be part of a fast-paced crew that develops and maintains complex IAAS/PAAS, builds environments on platforms including MySQL, Elasticsearch, and MongoDB.

We are looking for a candidate with a background of around 10+ years in MySQL Database Administration to manage our build and test platforms. Responsibilities will include provisioning, maintaining existing DB infrastructure, Enhancements, and working on issues together application development and operations team

- Should have around 10+ years of experience in DBA Activities
- Provision MySQL instances: standalone, replication, cluster, HA configurations
- Should have good exposure in cloud technologies - OCI, MySQL Heatwave, AWS RDS etc.
- Ensure performance, security, and availability of databases
- Should be able to handle backup and recovery procedures
- Perform general technical troubleshooting and give consultation to the development/operations team
- Maintain the integrity of Databases across multiple instances as per agreed policies
- Production & Preproduction deployment and troubleshooting support
- Prepare documentation and specifications
- Handle critical database procedures such as upgrade, recovery, migration, performance tuning etc.
- Profile server resource usage, optimize and tweak as necessary.
- Should be able to write shell/Python scripts
- Monitor DB infrastructure and able to do the performance tuning (server level, query etc) wherever required
- Should have a general understanding and working experience on NDB Cluster, Innodb Cluster etc
- Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

Required Skills:
- Strong proficiency in MySQL, Elasticsearch database management
- Decent experience with recent versions of MySQL (5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 8.0, 9) on-prem and cloud.
- Good hands-on experience of OCI, MySQL Heatwave, AWS etc.
- Understanding of MySQL's underlying storage engines
- Experience with Innodb Cluster, HA, and Replication configuration in MySQL
- Experience with DB monitoring tools, MySQL Enterprise, Datadog, Prometheus etc.
- Knowledge of de-facto standards and best practices in MySQL
- should be good in Unix or Python shell scripting
- Proficient in optimizing SQL statements
- Knowledge of MySQL features
- Familiarity with another SQL/NoSQL database such as Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Oracle, PostgreSQL etc.
- Familiarity with configuration management tools like chef, Ansible etc.
- Knowledge of limitations in MySQL and their workarounds in contrast to other popular relational databases
- Good communication skills
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Git, Perforce etc.

• **Only those lawfully authorized to work in the designated country associated with the position will be considered.**

• **Please note that all Position start dates and duration are estimates and may be reduced or lengthened based upon a client's business needs and requirements.**

Benefits:
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Rose International is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender (expression or identity), national origin, arrest and conviction records, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Positions located in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California will be administered in accordance with their respective Fair Chance Ordinances.

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Rose International has an official agreement (ID #132522), effective June 30, 2008, with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Employment Verification Program (E-Verify). (Posting required by OCGA 13/10-91.).