DBA (MySQL/Postgres)

OutboundEngine is a 100 percent done-for-you email, social media and content marketing platform that helps business owners stay top-of-mind with customers and prospects, and turn online engagement into revenue. The cloud-based product automates the delivery of timely, tailored e-mail, social and content marketing campaigns for a wide range of industries.

This role reports directly to the VP of Engineering and will play a critical role in driving new product development and improvements of existing products. Our company and team culture is relaxed but results-oriented. We’re proud of our ability to move fast, get things done, and still keep the atmosphere light and fun.

* Design and implement capacity planning * Monitor database systems for general health and performance and proactively address issues * Set database performance best practices.? Review and approve database schema and procedure changes.? * Evaluate new tools and technologies to support growing business needs * Manage our Redshift Data Warehouse * Work closely with the Engineers to determine optimal database architecture performance for our multitenant service * Identify and recommend tools and services for managing database infrastructure in all environments in the development lifecycle, including production and development * Hardware sizing and tuning requirements for database loads based in efficient use of multiple resources * Update and tune MySQL instances in a high volume environment * Responsible for the maintenance of the database, including backup, recovery, and disaster recovery management

* Strong working knowledge of all aspects of MySQL replication * Proficiency with schema and index design * Familiarity with MySQL DBA tools * Prior experience performing query analysis and optimization * Familiarity working in AWS * Experience working in a cloud environment **Nice to have** * Working knowledge of other data technologies such as MongoDB, Redis Map Reduce, Redshift * Extensive knowledge of MySQL internals including InnoDB and clustering * Knowledge of R * Familiar with ETL tools like Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle), Informatica, Ab Initio, Sagent, etc.? * Amazon RDS and EC2 * Some experience with cluster, both NDB and Galera * Nagios installation, configuration, and troubleshooting * Some knowledge of *nix OS tuning is helpful * ETL tool such as scripting language (Bash,Ruby,Python) * Experience with Microsoft OLAP cube setup, operation, query building