Overview

The Opportunity: We’ve spent 15 years focused on building a transparent and collaborative culture and are looking to combine high caliber talent from outside the organization with a great group of existing leaders. New customer contracts, industry-leading client satisfaction, continuous profitability and increased capital investment in our Data Capture and Business Analytics Platforms have set our company up for exponential expansion over the next 5 years.  If you’re someone with marketing automation or software services experience and are ready to join an award-winning, innovative company, we have a dynamic and passionate team that would like to meet you.

What we’re looking for:  We are seeking a talented MySQL DBA / System Administrator with an entrepreneurial spirit to join our expanding team. He/she will provide technical vision and leadership for our database infrastructure as well as help support our Rackspace environment. This role will also play a key role in initiatives for data privacy and data security.

Winning Characteristics:

• Thrives in a fast-paced environment and collaborative environment.
• Enjoys new challenges and the opportunity to have a large impact on client deliverables.
• Prior experience in a smaller or fast-growth environment.

• Effective verbal and written communications skills.
• Previous experience with marketing or consumer data a plus.

In this role, you will:

• Monitor and optimize transaction and data warehouse  databases for efficient data delivery.
• Ensure peak performance of all database systems to meet ever-increasing demand for our services.
• Manage data-related technology projects.
• Provide system administration support for Red Hat /CentOS Linux web and application servers.

Technologies you will work with:

• MySQL RDBMS (transactional databases and data warehouse)
• Red Hat/CentOS Linux web and application server experience
• Experience with Rackspace and virtual machine management, a plus
• Pentaho Data Integration (for ETL) and Python scripting experience, a plus

You must have:

• At least 5 years of database experience, including database administration, SQL development, query optimization, and schema design.
• Experience with large scale implementations of open source database servers including MySQL.
• Knowledge of replication, partitioning, sharding, and techniques for high availability.
• Experience designing and implementing Relational, Star and Snowflake schemas.
• Advanced SQL skills.
• At least 5 years experience managing database, web and application servers on Red Hat/CentOS Linux
• Experience with Business Intelligence (BI) reporting tools such as Information Builders WebFOCUS or Microstrategy, a definite plus
• Experience evaluating database solutions, including Big Data and NoSQL options, desired
• Experience recommending and implementing architecture changes leading to measurable improvement.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional work experience.

Our Core Values:

• Change: Continuous reinvention.
• Passion: Never give up, never give in.
• Discipline: You can’t manage what you can’t measure.