OceanDBA Ltd is an IT company situated in Quatre Bornes who provides expert services for open-source databases within the MySQL eco-system: MySQL, MariaDB and Percona Server databases.
We are currently looking for a System and Database Engineer to administrate local and remote open-source databases and systems. Part of the job will include developing and improving database tools to improve efficiency and service quality.
Requirements
- 3+ years experience of enterprise-class open-source systems administration
- 2+ years experience with web platforms design, configuration and installation
- 1+ year experience of MySQL/MariaDB or Percona database administration
- Experience with Virtualisation and containers (VMware, KVM, LXC, Docker, Kubernetes…)
- Command line Kung Fu (awk, sed, while, for, tr…)
- Knowledge with networking, security and load-balancing (nginx, haproxy, lvs …)
- Experience in Linux system tuning
- Experience in MySQL database tuning
- Knowledge in SQL(Query Language, Schema Design, Indexing)
- Experience with high-availability platforms
- At ease with scripting (Bash, Python)
- Experience with software version control usage in a team
Bonus Points
- Experience with other databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Solar
- Knowledge in other programming languages (Python, Go, Node, Ruby)
- Experience with build automation (Jenkins/Travis)
- Experience with caching and Queuing: Memcache, Redis, Gearman, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ,Kafka…
- Public contribution to open-source projects
- Experience in Graphing software or libraries (Graphite, Grafana, Greylog,Kibana…)
Your personal attitude sounds like:
- Challenger who likes to push technology at it’s limit
- Open-source fan or addict
- Proven ability to solve problems
- You are not satisfied by “it’s working” only
- High teamwork and communication skills
- Constant appeal to improve codebase and systems
- Interested in improving skills on database systems