*Remote Contract-to-Hire Opportunity*
Lighthouse Technology Services is partnering with our client to fill their Senior DBA position! The ideal candidate is a highly experienced MySQL & Postgres DBA with expertise in Performance Tuning, Database Design and other DBA responsibilities. This is a 6 month contract-to-hire role and can be remote in the United States. This employee will be a W2 employee of Lighthouse Technology Services.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Create standards and recommend database features that can be leveraged for performance and scalability
- Proactively review databases and identify areas of improvement in current systems (optimization of views, stored procedures, indexes, fragmentation etc.)
- Work with application development teams to optimize slow performing queries
- Design, install, monitor, maintain, and performance tune production, test/development, and QA database environments while ensuring high levels of data availability.
- Define database development standards and work with application development teams to plan implementation
- Review functional and maintenance jobs and recommend and drive for improvements
- Review database settings and work with System DBA to make sure the settings are optimal
- Work with System DBA and Architect on defining and standardizing security best practices
- Monitor and Audit databases regularly to maintain quality
- Engage with development teams on database design and review database changes to make sure they align with architecture standards
- Recommend efficient tooling for development, monitoring, and troubleshooting
- Create roadmap for database patching and upgrades and utilize new technology/features available with upcoming database versions
- Provide technical leadership to drive and ensure adoption/consistency of best practices across multiple teams
- Collaborate with IT Security Architecture to ensure the Dev team follows standards and best practices
- Participate in Incident triages & on-call rotations.
What You'll Need to Have:
- Expertise in Performance Analysis & Tuning of MySQL databases
- Expertise in System & Dev DBA responsibilities of MySQL, Postgres, Document DBs
- Experience with AWS
- Experience in using database performance monitoring tools, those built in as well as other vendor tools, to analyze and isolate issues.
- Experience with backups, restores and recovery model.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or combination of education and experience
- Minimum of 8 years of experience with relational database technologies is required.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills (English)
- Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills
- Ability to communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Preferred Skills:
- Well Versed in Windows and Linux operating systems
- Experience with administration of several of these databases: MySQL, Postgres, Aurora/RDS, Document DB, MongoDB
Pay Range:Â $80-$85/hr +
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