MySql Database Administrator on Linux for Funded ChatBot Startup

About NearGroupNearGroup is a fast growing chat bot in social connection / dating space. We currently do around 10 million messages daily and about to grow 100x in the next few months. Founder and technology team includes graduates from IIT with more than 25 years of combined experience in technology startups. Chat bot industry is growing exponentially and NearGroup is blazing the trail. You will get to work in an exciting space with awesome people on a product that is loved by more than 1 million users.

MySql Database Administrator on Linux

Senior MySQL DBA on Linux will be a part of the Core Engineering team at NearGroup that lives to make NearGroup’s services fast and reliable. An ideal candidate for this role is passionate about resolving complex issues in deployment and capacity management. He/she will play a pivotal role in building and managing our core high-volume systems, infrastructure and participate in key design decisions.

Desired Skills & Experience

Working knowledge and support of MySQL database

Expert level understanding of RDBM concepts and data normalization

Experience in MySQL Clustering and NDB Cluster.

Should have hands on experience with MySQL replication and creating Master-Master/Master-Mirror. 

Experience managing sizeable databases in a large 24x7 environment

Experience tuning MySQL queries, to include sub-selects, views, triggers, rules, and stored procedures

Proficient with command line management of Linux systems and writing shell scripts in Bash or Perl

Proficient with Linux command line filter tools such as awk, sed, grep

Familiarity with Ubuntu, Amazon AWS, particularly EC2, RDS etc

Understanding of DNS basics

Ability to adapt to a dynamic work environment

Basic knowledge of routers/switches/firewalls

Ability to mine performance and capacity data from various data sources and formulate valuable analysis

Ability to efficiently prioritize and organize competing work demands

Responsibilities

Setup Linux servers from the ground up, then maintaining and troubleshooting on Amazon EC2

Ensuring maximum availability and security of servers, including hardware/software upgrades and disaster recovery processes

Thinking of cool new ways of automating tasks with greater efficiency to save us time and hassle

Setup replication, monitoring, firewall

Nice to have:

Experience with TalenD

Experience with Percona tools, patches and custom builds

Experience with Tungsten Continuent

Experience managing servers that handle many concurrent connections

Familiarity with Java Virtual Machine (JVM)

Education & Qualification

Any Graduate with at least 2 years of relevant experience