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MySql-Database Administrator
Wiley
Colombo

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MySql-Database Administrator at Wiley

 

Applications are invited for all candidates to fill the MySql-Database Administrator Job Opening at Wiley

Closing Date : 29/12/2021

 

At Wiley, we welcome you for who you are, the background you bring, and embrace individuals who get excited about learning whether online or by book. Learning is for everyone, and so is our workplace. Bring your experiences, your perspectives, and your passion. It is in our differences that we empower the way the world learns.

The DBA is a member of the Database Engineering Group and will be responsible for the support and maintenance of a vast database estate, ensuring integrity, security, and performance standards are adhered to.

The role itself requires participation in 24 x 7 support of our Production environment and mission-critical applications, both on-prem and the Cloud, on a rotational schedule.

How you will make an impact:

  • Provide thought leadership on database architectural design of existing and new systems, database administration, performance monitoring tuning, troubleshooting problems, and expansion.
  • Coordinate with development and release management teams scheduled deployments.
  • Seek to optimize overall system performance to existing database solutions; reduce costs and improve efficiency.
  • Review, enhance and develop backup and recovery strategies depending on SLA requirements.
  • Communicate and coordinate with other IT teams to successfully resolve support and maintenance issues.
  • Capacity planning and monitoring database growth.
  • Design, maintain and ensure High Availability solutions including replication, clustering, etc.
  • Design implement and document Disaster Recovery strategies for critical business servers.
  • Willingness to provide timely reporting in support of data security with emphasis on the US Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.
     

We are looking for people who:

  • Hands-on experience in any combination of database technologies such as Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL.
  • 2+ years of Production support experience.
  • Ability to demonstrate a good understanding of database architecture, software, and database management systems.
  • Exposure and experience with any public cloud offerings like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Comprehensive knowledge of database administration tasks such as upgrades, right-sizing, performance tuning, and backup/restore.
  • Ability to work quickly, under pressure, and to deadlines.
  • Experience with NoSQL database technologies advantageous.
  • Familiarity and experience with DevOps technology tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Docker, and Kubernetes preferred.
  • Must be familiar with scripting languages such as shell scripting and should be familiar with Python, PERL.
  • Familiarity with database procedural languages for databases that they support, (PL/SQL, Transact-SQL, etc.) to help maintain and implement triggers, procedures, functions, etc.
  • Should be open to learning new database products and tools as needed by the business.
  • Must be ready to enforce database security concepts like least privilege needed to ensure data purity.
  • Should be familiar with project life cycles like Development, User Acceptance Testing, and Production release.
  • Knowledge and experience working in Agile Software Development.
  • Good communication skills, both verbally and written.
  • Able to work closely with multiple teams and individuals across geographical time zones and at various levels of the organization.
  • Ability to document processes and procedures.
     

About Wiley:

We are in one of the most dynamic periods in our history as technology, globalism, and economic diversity create far-reaching changes in the world. As a learning business, Wiley makes meaningful contributions to research discovery and lifelong learning by helping organizations achieve their goals and people achieve success from education through their careers. We may have been founded over two centuries ago, but our secret to success remains the same: change with the times and adapt to meet the ever-evolving needs of our customers. The company’s headquarters are in Hoboken, New Jersey, with operations in the U.S., Europe, Asia, Australia, and Canada.

 

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