Database Administrator Senior

Do you relish the prospect of working with cutting-edge database technology

Would you enjoy working with a truly global team

Join our highly skilled Site Reliability team

Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute products and services. We do all of this while maintaining Akamai's mission at the forefront of what we do: make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.

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As a Senior Database Administrator, you'll execute on database strategies and take responsibility for the integrity, architecture, modeling, security, and performance tuning for our MySQL databases. You'll play a key role in managing and improving the health and stability of our MySQL instances. You'll regularly partner with development and systems groups to provide deep subject matter expertise in various projects

As a Database Administrator Senior, you will be responsible for:
• Performing database administration; install, configure, upgrade, and migrate existing databases
• Responding to and resolving database related requests from other departments
• Defining database requirements as part of the product lifecycle to influence the new designs and standards
• Identifying data security related issues and help with improving overall security of the database environment
• Collaborating with our support, operations and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems
• Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues