Senior Database Administrator

NMI is seeking a Senior Database Administrator with MySQL experience who is passionate about running applications in an exceedingly high availability environment within our SRE organization.  This opportunity to work with similarly skilled professionals in a rapidly growing environment offers opportunities to level-up observability and automation skills while maintaining a series of databases across multiple key products.  

The SRE team is responsible for the operation of all hardware and software within the production and office environments.  This consists of a network connecting to different sites across the globe that must be highly available 24x7 with a minimal desired target of 99.99% availability.  The successful applicant as Senior Database Administrator will become a core member of the SRE team with the opportunity to work with experts in the infrastructure, networking, and DevOps space.

The Ideal Candidate

• Has experience across a broad range of technology stacks and is always interested in learning more.
• Enjoys being challenged to find creative solutions using both legacy and cutting edge technology.
• Gets excited about automating away the tedious parts of their job, and about observability into the systems under their purview.
• Has interest or experience in modern SRE shops, with a mixture of on-premise and public cloud infrastructure.
• Wants to work with a globally distributed team of similarly skilled professionals, and is comfortable building relationships with teammates up to thousands of miles away.
  Key responsibilities: 
  
• Own the design, maintenance, and ongoing improvement of NMI’s MySQL database estate, including restructuring database resources to meet performance, redundancy, and reliability goals
• Maintain and administer Microsoft SQL Server environments (prior experience not required; willingness to learn is essential)
• Manages and monitors all databases across multiple platforms
• Contribute to the design and evolution of database architecture
• Participate in an on-call rotation for database related incidents
• Test, document and continuously improve database performance across the enterprise
• Perform incident root cause analysis, identify preventative measures, and participate in blameless post-incident reviews
• Collaborate with developers to resolve performance issues and support database-related enhancements
• Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders across the company
  There is an out-of-hours on-call rotation that will require the Senior Database Administrator to respond to and resolve or escalate any database-related problems within internal and customer facing SLAs.

Qualifications & Experience

Required:

• 5+ years of DBA knowledge and experience with MySQL 8.0+
• Experience performing database patches and major version upgrades
• Experience in the following: High Availability, Replication, Disaster Recovery, and Backup
• Skilled in database design and architecture
• Excellent troubleshooting skills and instincts
• Some understanding and experience of both Linux and Windows in a production environment 
• Production experience with the technologies mentioned below:
  • MHA, Galera, or Orchestrator
  • Group and transactional replication

Preferred:

• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server 2019+ strongly preferred, but not required
• Experience administering or provisioning cloud hosted databases such as Aurora RDS
• Experience with No-SQL, OLAP, or data streaming and data lakes
• MySQL or MSSQL certifications
• Understanding of Infrastructure components and requirements outside of the database environment such as systems or networking – just the basics!
• Experience working with toolchains such as Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, and Gitla

As well as being a part of something exciting everyday, you will also receive the following benefits:

• Annual salary + bonus
• A remote first culture!
• Flex PTO 
• Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
• 13 Paid Holidays
• Company volunteer days

What we do!

NMI enables our partners with choice, and challenges the one-size-fits-all approach to payments. You've probably used NMI in the last 24 hours without even realizing it. We’re the platform that powers success for innovative tech created by SMBs, entrepreneurs and fintech startups. We’re creative problem solvers who help visionaries smash through boundaries and think beyond what’s possible so they can think about what’s next. But we’re not just built for the tech savvy. We democratize the latest payments technology so that everyone can realize the benefits of easy payments across the full spectrum of commerce. We’re all about enabling more payments in more ways and more places.

We believe that having a diverse group of employees strengthens both our work and our workplace. We’re focused on making NMI more diverse and welcoming with initiatives like having a dedicated Diversity, Equity & Inclusion action group, diversity goals for hiring, anonymized resume screening, affinity groups such as our Women's network and LGBTQ+ Network, open forums for discussions on diversity and social justice, and measuring inclusion and belonging as part of our regular employee engagement surveys.

Equal Opportunity

NMI is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all persons regardless of race, color, religion, sex, age, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation or sexual identity, genetic information, citizen status (except those that do not have the legal right to be employed in the United States), disability, military service, service member, veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Please be aware that all offers of employment are made subject to receipt of satisfactory background and financial checks.

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