About the Role
1. Do you want to work for a company that works hard and plays hard? Do you want to walk in the door knowing you will be working for a company that is experiencing striking growth and will be relying on you to help sustain it? Here at Workday we are searching for an engineer that excels in working in a fast-paced, challenging environment and genuinely enjoys it.
2. Environments Data Services is a distributed team that focuses on providing 24/7 operational support for our customer environments, as well as up taking new technologies and services and ensuring successful deployment to these live environments. We are looking for a MySQL Administrator to help us develop, design and improve our database solutions.
3. Specifically, you will: Provide support for large scale MySQL instances across production and development environments
4. Serve in an on-call rotation as a customer concern contact for critical production issues
5. Focus on automation to improve availability and scalability in our production environments
6. Help architect existing and new services in our production environment
About You
Basic Qualifications:
7. Strong hands-on experience as a database engineer/architect using different flavors of databases such as MySQL, NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra, Riak, Redis etc).
8. Experience running clustered, highly-available database services deployed on different flavors of Linux.
9. Strong scripting experience in multiple languages such as shell, python, ruby etc
Other Qualifications
10. Should be considered an "authority" in the field of databases.
11. Strong experience with automation and configuration management tools like Puppet, Chef or Ansible.
12. Good working knowledge of Github, JIRA confluence
13. Proven experience in Linux, Kubernetes, Dockers, Containers
14. Excellent communication skills - Formal presentations, white boarding
15. Hands-on experience supporting mission critical production workloads on MySQL or other open-source databases.
16. Experience with database architecture, design, replication, clustering, HA/DR
17. Strong collaboration, analytical, verbal and written communication skills
18. BS in Computer Science or related fields with 5+ years of experience (or) MS in Computer Science with 3+ years of experience.
19. Familiarity with tools such as Ceph Storage, Gluster, Orchestrator for MySQL, Percona MHA, Percona Galera, Vitess, Pure Storage
20. Experience with different storage sub-systems such as NFS, SSD etc.