MySQL Database Administration

Role: MySQL Database Administrator

Salary: up to £55k (Depending on Experience)

Location: Reading (2 day per week)

Responsibilities

• Monitor and Improve Database performance, durability and security
• Provision new MySQL instances, clusters and databases
• Ensure documentation is up to date as well
• Train others to be able to perform simple emergency fixes
• Manage day to day upgrades, backups and migrations of new and existing MySQL instances
• Providing regular updates on progress of development tasks

Required Experience

• Previous experience as a MySQL Database Administrator
• Experience of working on Linux
• Experience with replication configuration
• Knowledge of standard and best practices in MySQL
• Understanding of MySQL storage engines

Desirable skills

• Experience with Bash, Perl or Python
• Understanding of PHP and its interfaces to MySQL Databases