Database Administrator

Major League Baseball Advanced Media is a limited partnership of the club owners of Major League Baseball based in New York City and is the internet and interactive branch of the league.

• Perform on-site, day-to-day production MySQL database administration tasks in a Linux environment, including maintenance, troubleshooting, tuning, optimization, installation, upgrades, backup/recovery, and data migration across multiple data centers and multiple database server architectures/systems.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production database issues
• Maintain database design/release documentation
• Work closely with Engineering and DBA Team to design and implement optimal solutions.
• Consistently meet deadlines and schedules by working closely with Engineering/Infrastructure team

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related IT field preferred
• 5+ years of hands on experience in designing and administering MySQL databases in a HA Environment.
• Unix shell scripting
• Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Nagios
• Must be ready to support environments remotely while on on-call.
• Hands on experience with Amazon RDS MySQL.