Senior Database Administrator (MySQL)

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 duties:

• This role is focused on the maintenance and design of our database estate, including restructuring of the database resources to best suit the performance, redundancy and reliability goals of NMI
• Manages and monitors all databases across multiple platforms
• Assists in designing and refining database architecture
• Participates in an on-call rotation for database related incidents
• Tests, documents and improves database performance across the enterprise
• Performs incident root cause analysis, identifies solutions to prevent future database outages, and participates in blameless retrospectives when incidents do occur
• Work with developers to resolve performance issues and support database related improvements
• Ability to communicate effectively with Company stakeholder

This is a fully remote role (work anywhere in the US); however, if you live within a reasonable commutable distance, we’d love to see you in the office from time to time!  
There is an out-of-hours on-call rotation that will require the Senior Database Administrator to respond …