MySQL specialist L2–L5

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Your day at NTT DATA
The MySQL engineer, specialist or architect supports enterprise MySQL database environments across on-premises, hosted and cloud platforms. The role ensures database availability, performance, security and recoverability.

Key responsibilities

- Monitor MySQL databases, replication, jobs, storage and capacity.

- Resolve database incidents and service requests.

- Perform installation, configuration, patching and version upgrades.

- Administer backup, restore and recovery processes.

- Configure and support replication, clustering and high availability.

- Analyse and optimise queries and database performance.

- Maintain user access, permissions, encryption and auditing controls.

- Support migrations between platforms or hosting models.

- Develop scripts and automation for operational database management.

- Participate in resilience and disaster-recovery testing.

- At senior levels, lead complex performance, corruption and recovery investigations.

- At L5, define architecture patterns, standards and lifecycle roadmaps.

Technical knowledge

- MySQL administration.

- Replication and high availability.

- Backup and recovery.

- Query optimization.

- Database security.

- Linux operating environments.

- Cloud-hosted MySQL services.

- Scripting and operational automation.

Relevant certifications

- Oracle MySQL certification.

- Relevant Linux certification.

- Relevant AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud or Oracle Cloud certification.

Workplace type:

Equal Opportunity Employer
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