Senior DBA; MySQL​/AWS Aurora

Senior DBA (MySQL / AWS Aurora)

Location:

San Jose, CA – Onsite

• Diagnose and optimize slow queries (query profiling, execution plans, schema/index tuning)
• Identify and remediate database performance bottlenecks (index strategy, parameter tuning, workload analysis)
• Design an archiving/purging strategy to reduce overall database size while maintaining data integrity and access needs
• Establish/validate operational best practices (monitoring, alerting, backup/restore, performance baselines)
• Plan and execute Aurora MySQL engine upgrades, including blue/green deployments to minimize or eliminate downtime

• Strong MySQL performance tuning experience (query plans, query optimization, indexing, transactions/locking)
• Strong diagnostics toolkit (EXPLAIN/EXPLAIN ANALYZE, slow query log, Performance Schema, cloud monitoring)
• AWS Aurora/RDS operations experience (blue/green, parameter groups, replicas, failover behavior, maintenance windows)
• Experience designing retention/archival approaches for large datasets (partitioning, rollups, offline storage, ETL as needed)
• Ability to document and execute change plans safely (runbooks, risk mitigation, rollback strategies)

Mid‑Senior level

Full-time

Information Technology

Software Development