Database Administrator

Here at Vacasa, we help travelers experience unforgettable vacations. When you grow as quickly as we have been, every day is an exciting one. We embrace opportunities, and have a tendency to hand out responsibilities to our employees to see how they can stretch and challenge themselves. This is a place to grow as an individual, and to be part of our collective growth as a company and a team...and so far, it's been an unbelievably rewarding journey together.

Vacasa is looking for a talented individual to join our IT team as a database administrator to support and maintain our database infrastructure. Our success in the market directly translates into the volumes of analytics we need to support. If you like a challenge, this is the one for you.

* Develop or extend existing frameworks to automate as much as possible the administration of large numbers of MySQL servers * Design and implement large scale data management and business analytics solutions at a detailed level by applying industry knowledge, best practices, and architectural guidance to ensure system functionality and cost efficiencies * Design and implement strategies for operational support including monitoring, performance analysis, load testing and debugging of existing systems * Troubleshoot issues in development and operational environments * Participate in an on-call rotation **Role Expectations:** * Must be comfortable designing and enforcing specific database design specifications * Must help software engineers write performant queries or debug existing queries * Must be able to identify and update non-performance queries using monitoring tools and logs * Must be able to work with other teams but also need to be capable of identifying tasks and executing on them on your own * Must be able to keep up with a fast paced environment and also be able to adjust your workflow to fit the tasks at hand

* 3+ years of MySQL/Maria DB Database Administration experience * Capable of installing and configuring a MySQL instance * Capable of designing/maintaining granular user permissions * Must be familiar with configuration values in MySQL and tuning them to fit application needs * Must be familiar with configuring/maintaining replication * Experience maintaining databases for high-traffic international web applications * Extensive experience with database security practices * Familiar with AWS RDS and related tools **Additional Skills/Experience Desired:** * Familiarity with MySQL performance monitoring tools (MonYog, VividCortex, etc) * Familiarity with replication specific performance tuning * Able to configure data normalization and transformation between database instances (ETL) * Experience configuring and maintaining a data warehouse * Experience with other databases (other relational databases, NoSQL solutions, ElasticSearch, etc)