Desired Skills and Experience

  • Strong experience with MySQL administration, operation and performance tuning
  • Experience in running large scale database operations on Linux/Unix
  • Proficiency with configuration management tools, such as Chef or Puppet
  • The ability to read, write and understand scripts in languages such as Ruby or Python
  • Galera Cluster
  • MySQL HA solutions such as Orchestrator
  • MySQL proxies
  • Experience with a variety of open source software including redis, and memcached
  • Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and database as a service solutions
  • Version control systems like git
  • Docker and Kubernetes