Senior MySQL Database Administrator

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🇪🇺 Europe – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📀 Database Administrator

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Expert Executive Recruiters (EER Global)

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2007

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏥 Healthcare

Consulting • Logistics • Healthcare

Expert Executive Recruiters (EER Global) is a global headhunting and recruitment firm specializing in placing senior-level and specialized talent across multiple sectors. They provide services including global recruitment, Recruiting Process Outsourcing (RPO), headhunting, sourcing, and executive search, with sector focus areas such as technology, media, life sciences & medical, cleantech, finance & fintech, manufacturing, retail & trade, and AI recruitment. EER Global operates internationally with offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Israel, and Poland, and has recruited in over 50 countries across North America, South America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Oceania.

📋 Description

• Work within fast iteration cycles to help ship reliable, high-quality products • Build and maintain database infrastructure hands-on • Take ownership of every database environment: development, staging and production • Handle administration topics such as security, replication and failover, backups and performance tuning • Handle design topics such as schema structure, indexing strategy, and query and stored procedure design • Introduce and promote suitable tools, procedures, best practices and architectural standards • Review specification documents carefully to identify edge cases and unusual scenarios early • Collaborate with development, QA and DevOps teams • Grow into the in-house database authority • Coach developers and QA engineers on database best practices

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a DBA, including at least 3 years specifically with MySQL • Hands-on experience with failover, security, performance optimization and backup/recovery • Hands-on experience with database design, testing and maintenance • Ability to work independently as the only DBA in the company • Scripting experience (Python, Bash) • Strong troubleshooting skills and a structured approach to root cause analysis • Good written and spoken English (mandatory) • C++ development experience, especially connecting to MySQL from C++ code (nice to have) • Background in financial markets or trading (e.g. FIX protocol) (nice to have) • Experience with Jira, SVN and Jenkins (nice to have)