2015-08-13

Lazada Group is pioneering e-Commerce across Southeast Asia.

Launched in 2012, Lazada has grown rapidly to include over 4,000 full-time employees in the region, with operations in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, and a sourcing center in HongKong that drives cross-border marketplace activities. Lazada has earned the trust and financial backing of key investors Tesco, Temasek, J.P. Morgan, Verlinvest, Investment AB Kinnevik and Rocket Internet.

Revolutionizing the way we shop, and perform online transactions across the region, Lazada has an online footprint of approximately 4 million daily visits to its websites, and the largest Facebook following in Southeast Asia with over 12 million fans.

Given our tremendous growth, we are searching for dynamic, entrepreneurial, broad-minded individuals to be part of our rapidly expanding team! Join our diverse and motivated team to hone in on your creativity as well as implement new initiatives within a nurturing, equal opportunity environment!

Reporting to the SVP Infrastructure, you will be responsible for:

managing large-scale and massively concurrent MySQL systems throughout multi-number of Lazada sites

finding problems and slow factors from database query, hardware, network and other variables

designing and implementing comprehensive security solutions to protect data at rest

defining and developing projects that reduce operational costs and automate regular tasks

reviewing and recommending logical design and converting logical into physical design

researching and developing new technologies and approaches for building highly available persistence systems

maintaining our global fleet of MySQL instances as part of our on-call rotation

24x7 on-call responsibilities and working with the team(s) in Vietnam to maintain the on-call schedule

In order to succeed in the role, you should ideally have:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Systems, or equivalent

at least 5 years’ relevant experience, with at least 2 years’ support MySQL on Unix/Linux

working knowledge of MySQL DBA best practices

experience working with High Availability solutions / Percona XtraDB Cluster / Galera Cluster

good working knowledge of scripting languages (e.g., Shell, Perl, Python)

strong written and verbal skills

ability to manage multiple tasks with shifting priorities

working knowledge of PHP is a plus

experience doing performance tuning and testing of complex, enterprise-level software products

experience with data warehousing and business intelligence applications is a strong plus

capacity monitoring and management capabilities

strong query and database tuning skills

fast troubleshooting and resolution skills

strong understanding of hardware performance, memory and I/O

experience and success in automating administrative tasks

strong understanding of InnoDB

experience with Master Slave Replication is a plus

Has this role caught your interest? Reach out to michelle.sim@lazada.com for more details or go to http://www.lazada.com/work-at-lazada/ for the latest news and career opportunities!

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