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As a Percona Database Administrator, your days are focused on managing, optimizing, and troubleshooting open-source database systems for reliability and efficiency. Typical responsibilities include monitoring database health, performing regular maintenance, developing backup and recovery strategies, and assisting with database migrations or upgrades. You’ll often collaborate with developers, IT teams, and sometimes external clients to resolve issues or implement best practices. The role offers exposure to diverse industries and infrastructure, and there are often opportunities for growth into senior consultant or architect positions as you deepen your expertise.

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A Percona job refers to a position at Percona, a company specializing in open-source database solutions, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB. Percona employees work in various roles such as database administration, software development, support engineering, and consulting. These positions often involve optimizing database performance, ensuring high availability, and providing expert support to clients. Many Percona jobs are remote, offering flexibility and collaboration with a global team.

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To thrive in a Percona Database Administrator role, you need deep expertise in open-source database technologies such as MySQL, MongoDB, or PostgreSQL, typically supported by a degree in computer science or related fields. Experience with tools like Percona Toolkit, backup and monitoring solutions, and relevant certifications (such as MySQL Certified DBA) are highly valued. Excellent problem-solving, communication, and customer service skills are essential for handling complex issues and collaborating with clients or internal teams. These technical and interpersonal skills are crucial to maintaining robust, high-performing database environments and delivering quality support.

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MySQL Database Administrator at Irving TX

USM

Irving, TX

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Company Description

USM Business Systems Inc. is a quickly developing worldwide System Integrator, Software and Product Development, IT Outsourcing and Technology assistance supplier headquartered in Chantilly, VA. We offer world-class ability in giving most astounding quality and administrations through industry best practices planned to convey remarkable worth to our customers. 

Utilizing our industry knowledge, administration service offering expertise and innovation abilities, we distinguish new business and innovation slants and create answers for help customers around the globe, giving top of the line solid and practical IT benefits which are cost effective services. 

Established in 1999, the organization has corner qualities in building and dealing with a Business Oriented IT environment with rich involvement in technology innovation, ERP and CRM counselling, Product Engineering, Business Intelligence, Data Management, SOA, BPM, Data Warehousing, SharePoint Consulting and IT Infrastructure. Our other offerings include modified solutions and administrations in ERP, CRM, Enterprise architecture, offshore advisory services and e-commerce. 

USM, a US ensured Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) is perceived as one of the fastest developing IT Systems Integrator in the Washington, DC zone. Most as of late, USM was positioned #9 on the rundown of the Top administrations organizations in the DC Metro Area - Washington Business Journal (2011). We are a project-driven firm that reliably meets the IT needs of our State and Government customers through development and business keenness.

Job Description

MySQL Database Administrator

Irving TX

Duration : 1 year contract

Responsibilities

Create, Manage and maintain internal development, testing and production databases.

Install, configure, update and troubleshoot large environments.

Collaborate with Systems Engineers and Administrators on technical issues.

Create a fast, safe system for databases in production.

Collaborate with engineers, testers and staff.

Automate, backup and secure everything.

Rapidly diagnose and fix problems in production.

Requirements

Broad architectural awareness of customer applications, not only understanding database aspects (e.g. metrics, db parameters etc.) but also with ability to triage issues in an end-to-end manner aware of how web, application and caching tiers impact database performance and availability.

Experience with MySQL NDB.

Familiarity/Experience with Percona and MariaDB cluster will be an added plus.

Understanding of MySQL's underlying storage engines, such as InnoDB and MyISAM. Knowledge of de-facto standards and best practices in MySQL. Proficient in writing and optimizing SQL statements

Experience interacting with resolving database engine and system/infrastructure-related issues and providing guidance on systems architecture, data model, and SQL query reviews as needed.

Experience with MySQL and PostgreSQL replication technologies including Master-Master multi-replication, Master-Multiple Slave replication.

MySQL and PostgreSQL administration and support experience including backup and recovery, replication, clustering, performance tuning, and monitoring.

Familiarity managing Application servers for data integration and reporting applications.

Experience working in a highly segmented network with complex firewall implementations and many security features

Proven track record mastering manual database-related tasks and building automation wherever possible to replace those tasks.

Experience with Open Source and Big Data databases (relational and non-relational) MongoDB, CouchDB, HBase, Cassandra, etc

Experience setting-up and managing Amazon Web Services, Openstack or equivalent Cloud Platform

Experience with documentation of standard procedures, architecture, design and deployments

Release management and deployment of code in different environments using source code control tools such as GitHub.

Has experience in the Agile Methodology.

5+ Years of experience with SQL

4+ Years of cloud experience with Amazon Web Services or Openstack or similar platform.

Additional Information

If my requirement matches your resume, then please do reply on my email id nithyar(at)usmsystems(dot)com and contact no is 703-794-2380.