MySQL Database Administrator (OAK) | Ask.com | Oakland, CA
MySQL Database Administrator (OAK)
(Location: Oakland, CA)
About Us
Join the #1 brand and top Web property focused on answering people’s questions. At Ask.com, we’re building a next-generation Q&A service – spanning both the Web and mobile devices — that combines the power of search with insight from real users. Our proprietary algorithms crawl the web for question and answer pairs (400 million and growing), fueling one of the biggest Q&A databases on the Web. This unique technology, combined with answers from real users in our community, makes Ask.com the most comprehensive Q&A service around. At Ask, we empower each individual to succeed, communicate their ideas, and take action. When you work here, you know your contributions will have a direct and immediate impact on the company. We are serious about creating and maintaining a company culture that is both innovative and fun, and we’re looking for great people to come join our team.
The Role
Ask.com is looking for experienced MySQL database administrators interested in supporting the next generation answers platform. Be a part of a team taking search to the next level by harnessing the powers of structured data, web extraction technologies and community-driven content. The ideal candidate will have specialized knowledge in database management and tuning for high-performance web applications; expertise in MySQL administration; real-world experience maintaining systems requiring high availability, fault tolerance, and secured data.
The Task
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About Us
Join the #1 brand and top Web property focused on answering people’s questions. At Ask.com, we’re building a next-generation Q&A service – spanning both the Web and mobile devices — that combines the power of search with insight from real users. Our proprietary algorithms crawl the web for question and answer pairs (400 million and growing), fueling one of the biggest Q&A databases on the Web. This unique technology, combined with answers from real users in our community, makes Ask.com the most comprehensive Q&A service around. At Ask, we empower each individual to succeed, communicate their ideas, and take action. When you work here, you know your contributions will have a direct and immediate impact on the company. We are serious about creating and maintaining a company culture that is both innovative and fun, and we’re looking for great people to come join our team.
The Role
Ask.com is looking for experienced MySQL database administrators interested in supporting the next generation answers platform. Be a part of a team taking search to the next level by harnessing the powers of structured data, web extraction technologies and community-driven content. The ideal candidate will have specialized knowledge in database management and tuning for high-performance web applications; expertise in MySQL administration; real-world experience maintaining systems requiring high availability, fault tolerance, and secured data.
The Task
- Setup and maintain production MySQL instances
- Monitor and tune the performance of multiple MySQL servers
- Monitor database events, troubleshoot and resolve problems
- Monitor database backup and validate recovery plans
- Work with development teams for schema design and query tuning
- Design database security roles; enroll users and audit database security
- Follow change management policies to manage change in database environments
- Coordinate with system administration and application development teams for capacity planning and application design
- Cross-train the Site Production team in running and maintaining production databases
- Installing, supporting and maintaining MySQL in a production environment
- Experience with MyISAM, InnoDB and other storage engines
- Basic SQL query and schema optimization
- Hands on experience with MySQL replication, backup and recovery
- MySQL performance tuning
- Identifying problem queries and reporting to the development teams
- Experience with a scripting language such as bash or python
- Deploying schema changes to production
- Experience running MySQL on Amazon RDS
- Understanding of Nagios/Cacti/Zenoss monitoring system is a plus
- Understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases
- 2 years (recently) of production MySQL administration responsibilities
- 2+ years working with the SQL
- 2 years of Linux server experience
- Self starter with a strong work ethic
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