MySQL Database Engineer

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.

The candidate should understand the application functionality, business logics and work with application stake holders to understand the requirement and discuss with the new application features and propose the right solutions. He must liaise closely and work in collaboration with the release management teams, support teams and the infrastructure DBAs.

Design, Install, Deploy and Manage MySQL on Physical, Virtual, AWS EC2 / RDS / Aurora.

Build MySQL clusters with a high availability, active-active cluster setup in a large scale and multi datacenter environments having minimum RPO/RTO on a DR scenario

Design and implement uniform backup strategy and business continuity plans across the MySQL environments using Percona XtraDB or custom automation scripts with reliable monitoring and alerting mechanisms

Define thorough and validated database monitoring and alerting, along with documentation for future references

Setup high availability with Master-Master/ Master-slave replication

Maintain stable performance via server optimizations

Guide engineering teams to best practices on server configurations and SQL tuning.

Maintain security and compliance via OS and database version upgrades

Work with application stake holders to create effective database solutions

Create and maintain adhoc reports

Adhere to the incident and change process, prepare thorough documentation, and peer review planned production tasks

Support application release process, and automations

Mentor and develop other engineers on MySQL skills

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.

Experience working with PCI (Payment Card Industry Data Security) standards

ITIL environment experience

Deep experience with SQL, stored procedures, functions, triggers, batch jobs, reporting, analytics.

Experience managing PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and/or Oracle.

Experience and knowledge with NoSQL and data engineering technologies such as Kafka, Redis, Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Redshift, ETL, etc.

Experience with data analytics and Business intelligence

Verifone is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Verifone is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.