MySQL Consultant

What You Will Do:

• Perform MySQL/MariaDB professional services for clients.
• Effectively assess not only the dynamics of the technology, but also the people managing it.
• Create multiple types of documentation, whiteboard solutions, and conduct knowledge sharing as required to ensure the client understands and is satisfied with the solution.
• Seamlessly maneuver between talking low-level technical details or high level strategy depending on the situation.
• Maintain proficiency with consulting tools, software, and standard operating procedures.
• Be an active thought leader for the external community via monthly blogging, quarterly webinars, and conference talks/tutorials.
• Be an active technical leader via contributions to our public forums, email lists, and monthly publishing of KB articles.
• Participate in the product life-cycle such as, providing use cases/problem statements, product feedback, bug identification, recommendations for feature requests.
• Ability to travel on average up to 15% of the year.

What You Have Done:

• 5+ years of MySQL administration, including but not limited to the following areas: InnoDB configuration, performance tuning, query optimization, index tuning, setup and configuration of backups, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Experience with high availability tools e.g. load balancers, HAProxy, ProxySQL, Orchestrator.
• 3+ years of Linux administration experience, including performing hands-on work in the areas of networking, hardware, virtualization, containers, scripting, and IO subsystems.
• Experience performing the following types of efforts: architecture and design reviews, performance audits, and database migrations.
• Comfortable speaking to non-technical and technical management/executives in delivering recommendations.
• Strong scripting/shell skills e.g. Python, PHP, Go, Bash.
• Production-based experience with both on-premise, and cloud environments (e.g. Amazon RDS, Google Cloud SQL), including with customers that run database environments across multiple datacenters/regions, and manage large datasets.

What will make you stand out:

• Experience performing the following types of efforts: architecture and design reviews, performance audits, and database migrations.
• Experience with Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Vagrant, Consul, etc.
• Experience with training development and public speaking experience.
• Demonstration of active thought leadership in the MySQL/MariaDB community (blogs, conference talks, etc.).
• Ability to read and interpret MySQL code for the purpose of debugging and troubleshooting.
• Cross-over experience with MongoDB, PostgreSQL or ClickHouse.
• Experience working with cloud-native applications and containerization technologies e.g. Docker and KubernetesMySQL, AWS, Google Cloud, and/or Microsoft Azure certifications.