Job Details
Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a MySQL DBA for a CONTRACT assignment with one of our premier Insurance services clients in Bethlehem, PA or Holmdel, NJ .
Responsibilities :
- Be part of an on-call rotation providing 24x7x365 incident and outage response, including non-business hours changes
- Perform initial investigation and/or troubleshooting of database and database system issues to resolve issue & determine root cause
- Process all support requests within SLA by following procedural requirements
- Escalate to vendors, where necessary, to ensure timely resolution
- Thoroughly document steps taken to resolve incidents and fulfil catalog requests within ServiceNow tickets
- Develop, document, and update standard operating procedures and knowledgebase articles
- Identify, address, and resolve repeating alert trends to improve stability and performance
- Suggest defects and product/infrastructure enhancements to improve stability and automation
- Participation in periodic skills enhancement sessions and training courses
- Be a project lead, as well as a project participant for various activities: cloud migration, lifecycle management, application modernization, capacity planning, financial optimization, performance, and stability optimization, build and design state configuration automation, etc.
Required Skills:
- 10+ years of MySQL DBA experience
- Bachelor's Degree or similar required
- MySQL replication experience
- SQL coding and tuning experience
- Shell scripting and automation experience
- MySQL Enterprise Manager experience
- WS/Cloud Services experience: EC2, RDS, and Auror
- Cloud deployments experience: Jenkins, Bitbucket, Terraform
- Hands-on, technically adept DBA, capable of performing required DB tasks experience
- Strong troubleshooting/performance tuning skills
- bility to assess and improve SQL performance
- Understanding of MySQL's underlying storage engines, such as InnoDB and MyISAM
- bility to Handle common database procedures, such as upgrade, backup, recovery, migration, etc.
- Profile server resource usage, optimize and tweak as necessary
- Expert level MySQL RDBMS installation/configuration, patching, troubleshooting, performance tracking/tuning, back-up/recovery, remote monitoring skills with hands-on experience in -large and very dynamic environments
- Strong commitment to following SDLC/Change-Management principles
- Self-starter and be able to perform work with minimal supervisory direction
- Knowledge of data quality, data management, and data testing strategies and practices
- Strong communication skills, both oral and written
- Strong experience working with ticketing tools such as ServiceNow, Zenoss or any other monitoring tool, Cloud monitoring tools (CloudWatch, CloudTrail), AppDynamics (or similar APM tool)
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
- Keen analytical and structured approach to problem solving
- bility to accommodate flexible work schedules
Preferred Skills:
- bility to diagnose problems and triage/resolve issues across various tiers (application, network, database, server, or storage tiers)
- bility to implement automation to reduce manual administrative tasks through use of jobs, scripts, cron, or other techniques
- Experience in DB2 UDB, Oracle, Postgres, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, and/or Cassandra is plus
- Experience with configuration management tools: SCCM; Puppet; or Ansible.
- Development or enhancement of training and upskilling programs
SGA is a technology and resource solutions provider driven to stand out. We are a women-owned business. Our mission: to solve big IT problems with a more personal, boutique approach. Each year, we match consultants like you to more than 1,000 engagements. When we say let's work better together, we mean it. You'll join a diverse team built on these core values: customer service, employee development, and quality and integrity in everything we do. Be yourself, love what you do and find your passion at work. Please find us at .
SGA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of Race, Color, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Religion, National Origin, Disability, Veteran Status, Age, Marital Status, Pregnancy, Genetic Information, or Other Legally Protected Status. We are committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, and our services, programs, and activities. Please visit our company EEO page to request an accommodation or assistance regarding our policy.