MySQL Database Engineer
Lead a MySQL database team at a global payments company, designing, securing, and optimizing high-availability clusters for secure transaction systems in on-prem and AWS environments.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Minimum 8 years of experience managing MySQL
- Experience with MySQL Active/Active cluster setup, Database Upgrade and Migrations, Scripting
- Experience administrating MySQL on Linux platform
- Experience with MySQL version upgrades in production environments with a zero or very minimum application down time
- Experience with design & architecting MySQL environments using any framework such as Galera Cluster or Percona XtraDB
- Experience deploying database monitoring using at least one of PMM, New Relic, Datadog, Nagios, Grafana, ELK, AppD, etc.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef
- Proficiency with cloud infrastructure, AWS RDS or equivalent.
- Automation/scripting skills in a modern language like Python, Shell scripting, Go, Java, Rust.
- Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins, Github Actions, Gitlab.
- Advanced experience with database performance tuning including SQL tuning, hardware configuration and capacity planning.
- Strong technical leadership, mentoring and time management skills.
Full description
Why Verifone
For more than 30 years, Verifone has established a remarkable record of leadership in the electronic payment technology industry. Verifone is one of the leading electronic payment solutions brands and among the largest providers of electronic payment systems worldwide.
Verifone has a diverse, dynamic, and fast-paced work environment in which employees are focused on results and have opportunities to excel. We take pride in working with leading retailers, merchants, banks, and third-party partners to invent and deliver innovative payment solutions around the world. We strive for excellence in our products and services and are obsessed with customer happiness.
Across the globe, Verifone employees are leading the payments industry through experience, innovation, and an ambitious spirit. Whether it’s developing the next generation of secure payment systems or finding new ways to bring electronic payments to emerging markets, the Verifone team is dedicated to the success of our customers, partners, and investors. It is this passion for innovation that drives every Verifone employee toward personal and professional success.
Verifone is proudly an in-office work culture as we see immense benefits to career development and business results from our colleagues being physically co-located.
What's Exciting About the Role
Verifone is seeking an experienced MySQL DBA who will be responsible for ensuring database performance, high availability, and security of clusters and single instances of MySQL instances. You will also be responsible for orchestrating upgrades, backups, HA/DR, and provisioning database instances. You will work closely with other teams, including application architects/ Sr. Developers and application support engineers for architecture design and SQL optimization, establishing and documenting best practices.
We look for dedicated and versatile engineers who are passionate about working in a company whose culture is dedicated to delivering innovative software products that solve our customers’ most challenging business needs. As a Lead DBA, you’ll have the opportunity to make significant and direct impact on our database performance, applications, and solve some of the most complex challenges in cloud and on prem environments, while lead the team from a technical and development perspective.
Key Responsibilities
You will be responsible for ensuring that database management policies, processes and procedures are established and followed, adhering to ITIL good practice principles and are subjected to continuous improvement as per PCI standards. They will be responsible for reviewing system design changes to ensure they adhere to expected service standards and recommend changes to ensure maximum stability, availability and efficiency of the supported applications.