2012-09-10

TITLE:
Senior Database Administrator (MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL)

LOCATION: Los Angeles, CA

DIVISION: Digital

DEPARTMENT:  Database Operations

TERMS: Salaried Employee with benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, and Vacation)

HOURS: Full Time

DESCRIPTION:

The DBA will be working in a high volume transactional environment supporting
web and mobile applications. This role will be responsible for
managing multiple MongoDB, MySQL, and PostgreSQL database servers
which provide content to 1000+ public facing websites. The candidate will be
tasked with server upgrades, performance monitoring/tuning, testing and change
deployment. Must be comfortable working in a constantly evolving environment
where changing business requirements demand support from the underlying technology.
The ability to think quickly and solve complex technical problems is essential
to this role.

PRIMARY
RESPONSIBILITIES:

Provide
administration support for high volume transactional and analytical
database servers

Manage database
installations and upgrades

Data modeling
(logical and physical), optimization of legacy data models and stored
routine development

Manage database
objects including tables, relationships, stored routines, triggers and
users/roles

Query
optimization including tuning legacy application code and analyzing
underperforming query reports

Test database
components by providing quality assurance, benchmarking, validation,
monitoring

Must be
available to provide after hours support within an on-call rotation

Provide database
support in person, over the phone, or via email as necessary

Assist
development team with recommendations on best practices

Manage database
security and implement audit requirements

Database server
performance tuning

REQUIRED
SKILLS:

Ability to solve
problems independently or as part of a team

Exceptional
oral/written communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills to
drive results in a multi-disciplinary environment

Ability to
prioritize multiple tasks and projects and deliver under deadline

Strong understanding
of relational databases

Understanding of
MySQL internals including storage engine architecture (MyISAM, InnoDB,
archive), partitioning, indexing, referential integrity, networking and
caching

Understanding of
MySQL database replication internal processes including binary/relay
logging, replication threads, row/statement based replication,
master/slave topologies

Experience with
Slony and PostgreSQL streaming replication

Familiar with
MongoDB or other NoSQL databases

Familiar with
high availability and scalability concepts such as clustering and load
balancing

Understanding of
various disaster scenarios, backup/disaster recovery techniques/topics
including logical/physical backups, point-in-time recovery, data
corruption

Experience with
Linux operating systems (CentOS, RHEL), Bash shell scripting,
installing/upgrading software, security, understanding of Linux file
system architecture

Familiar with
database transactions and concepts: table/row locking, semaphores, mutual
exclusion, ACID, disk I/O

General
knowledge of hardware components and connectivity including disk, CPU,
networking, memory, switches, etc

Significant
life-cycle database administration support including database design,
database development, testing, deployment, and maintenance

EXPERIENCE
& EDUCATION:

5+ years IT
industry experience

3+ years
database administration experience

College degree
or equivalent experience

PLUSES:

Experience with
object oriented programming, PHP 5, JavaScript, or Java

Knowledge of
dimensional modeling, warehousing/OLAP environments and database sharding
techniques

Conceptual
understanding of shared storage, Logical Volume Management (LVM),
virtualization and distributed caching

Oracle
administration experience

MS SQL
experience

Clear
Channel is an equal opportunity employer and will not tolerate discrimination
in employment on the basis of race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender
identity, religion, disability, ethnicity, national origin, marital status,
veteran status, or any other legally-protected status.

Industry: Advertising & Marketing Services
Discipline: Databases
Experience: 5 - 7 Years
Compensation: $120K
Company: Clear Channel Communications, Inc.

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