Senior MySQL Database Administrator

Founded in 2002, Big Fish is the world's largest producer and distributor of casual games, delivering fun to millions of people around the world. Through its mobile and online distribution platforms, Big Fish has distributed more than 2.5 billion games to customers in 150 countries from a growing catalog of 450+ unique mobile games and 3,500+ unique PC games.

We’re seeking you: A creative, Senior MySQL DBA who will play a key role on the database team responsible for supporting our MySQL infrastructure. This will include database design and architecture for existing and new initiatives, database monitoring, tuning, and capacity planning. This is a great opportunity to pull from your experience to help us build cutting-edge and scalable solutions.

• Working directly with developers to review database designs, index and queries
• Evaluating and recommending database hardware and MySQL versions
• Monitoring and performance tuning of production database systems
• Ensuring all maintenance, system integrity, capacity, scalability and space requirements for Big Fish Games database environments are met Skills and

• 4+ years experience with databases in a production environment
• Previous experience high transaction and 50+ database server environments • Knowledge of various database replication and clustering methods
• Experience with MySQL 5.6
• Experience in database backup, restore and disaster recovery procedures
• Experience with analyzing and tuning databases for performance and efficiency
• Skills in at least one of the following: Shell Scripting, Perl, Python or PHP
• Expert troubleshooting skills and abilities
• Ability to effectively interface and communicate with engineering teams

Preferred Experience:

• Percona Xtrabackup and Toolkit
• Experience with multiple database platforms
• Knowledge of and/or previous experience with Linux or UNIX
• Bachelors degree in technology, engineering, or one with a mathematical focus