Database Administrator (DBA), Senior Associate

Pomelo is a leading online fashion company in Emerging Asia. Backed by fashion and technology investors from across the world, Pomelo brings its unique fast fashion style to Emerging Asia through a technology-driven, vertically-integrated design, and production model. Our growth strategy is to merge our online focus of mobile and social with the latest trends and data.

About the role

The Senior DBA position will be responsible for maintaining the companys database systems (currently MySQL in RDS) including backup scripts, performance tuning, capacity planning, monitoring critical events and documentation.

Responsibilities

Test, validate and implement performance and resource optimization improvements.

Maintain development and production environments

Monitor and maintain database security and database software

Database & Application( SQL ) performance tuning

Backup and recovery (RMAN and traditional)

Root cause analysis of production-related database issues

On-call for production databases

daily maintenance, monitoring, problem resolution, and internal customer and dev support.

Experience managing servers in large-scale, geographically diverse environments.

Qualifications

BA/BS in Computer Science

3-5 years of relevant experience in MySQL engines

Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities.

Experience with other Data Persistence platforms: RDBMS (Oracle, Postgres**), NoSQL, Hadoop, and etc.

In-depth knowledge of MySQL, Data Security, and Data Information Lifecycle Management

Ability to communicate in English at a high level

Start-up or e-commerce experience is an added bonus