Senior Database Consultant, MySQL

Why Pythian :

At Pythian , we are experts in strategic database and analytics services, driving digital transformation and operational excellence. Pythian , a multinational company, was founded in 1997 and started by ensuring the reliability and performance of mission-critical databases. We quickly earned a reputation for solving tough data challenges. We were there when the industry moved from on-premises to cloud environments, and as enterprises sought more from their data, we expanded our competencies to include advanced analytics.

Today, we empower organizations to embrace transformation and leverage advanced technologies, including AI, to stay competitive. We deliver innovative solutions that meet each client’s data goals and have built strong partnerships with Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and Snowflake. The powerful combination of our extensive expertise in data and cloud and our ability to keep on top of the latest bleeding edge technologies make us the perfect partner to help mid and large-sized businesses transform to stay ahead in today’s rapidly changing digital economy.

Why you:

As a Senior Database Consultant you will work within a globally dispersed team to supply complete support for all aspects of database and application infrastructure to a variety of Pythian ’s customers.

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What you will be doing:

• Coordination, analysis, design, implementation, and administration of database solutions, including database server configuration and maintenance.
• Analyzing customer’s infrastructure and processes and recommending to customers, best practices for improvements to current operational processes and procedures to ensure that databases remain operational for maximum uptime and recoverability.
• Administration of backup procedures and disaster recovery plans, provides proactive monitoring to head off potential issues before they become incidents, responds to monitoring alerts, and carries out troubleshooting of operational problems.
• Overseeing of backup, clustering, mirroring, replication, failover, and restoration and recovery of corrupted databases, develops and reviews action plans (such as maintenance, deployment, upgrades, etc.), and completes all relevant client documentation. Develop a thorough understanding of all relevant customer information including warnings, handoffs, briefing notes, etc.
• Assists the Lead Database Consultant with respect to Incident Management, Problem Management and Problem Resolution, implements Changes and Service Requests, and designs/implements technical procedures for comp