Database Performance Consultant
This position has been filled
Duties and Responsibilities
- Review application schema and make recommendations for design enhancements
- Participate in DB load testing to identify bottlenecks and devise solutions
- Assist in evolving the schema to support growing scale include relational database solutions to improve performance
- Analyze requirements and design database replication/clustering solutions for a heavy distributed read/write application.
Essential Qualifications
- 8-10 years proven industry experience creating and enhancing high-load database solutions for enterprises
- Training and certification as a DBA
- Expert-level experience in MySQL technologies in Unix environments
- Experience optimizing database performance of complex object-oriented PHP applications
- Diverse experience with other enterprise RDBMS like Oracle, Sybase, DB2 etc.
- Great communication skills, able to learn new environment quickly
- Great writing skills – experience creating quality documentation.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience Participated in teams using Agile development processes (Scrum, XP, etc.).
