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Employment Type: 6 Months Contract Job Summary: Looking for an experienced MySQL DBA & Developer to design, maintain, and optimize MySQL databases for high-volume applications. Must be capable of managing large-scale data operations (in TBs), cloud/on-prem deployments, ETL pipelines, and ensuring high availability, performance, and security. Key Responsibilities: Database Administration Install, configure, upgrade MySQL (v5.5v8.0) on VM, systems, and Azure Cloud. Manage backup, recovery, DRDP, auto-recovery, and replication setups. Tune performance (queries, indexes, server settings); ensure database security and access control. Monitor systems using tools like Percona Toolkit, Nagios, or Prometheus. Maintain architecture documentation, cronjobs, and archiving strategies. MySQL Development Write complex SQL queries, views, triggers, procedures; design schemas. Create & optimize ETL pipelines for data loading/extraction (including staged loads). Handle large-volume data migration, cleaning, normalization, and modeling. Support analytics and report development (Superset, Power BI, Tableau preferred). Implement schema changes, assist DR planning, and support app integration. Technical Skills Required: MySQL (v5.5/8.0), SQL, indexing, encryption, query tuning ETL tools, SSIS, scripting (Python, Bash), Linux/Unix Cloud (Azure preferred, AWS/GCP a plus), job schedulers (Autosys, cron) Familiar with high availability, clustering, sharding, failover systems Experience with ServiceNow, JIRA, DevOps, and BI tools is a plus Soft Skills: Strong problem-solving, communication, stakeholder handling Ability to work under pressure and support distributed teams Detail-oriented with a focus on performance, reliability, and security
