At Rave, we share the common goal of making the world a better and safer place. We're Ravers. Join us on our mission.
We are growing our Network Operations team to ensure better service and reliability to our customers. Rave employees take great pride in the product they support because our software-as-a-service (SaaS) product suite keeps millions of people across North America safe, secure and connected. Ravers thrive on continuous improvement, both personally and for the platform. We are open, flexible, fun, and most of all dedicated to keeping people safe. Our ideal candidate will have had prior experience as a DBA and will have strong problem solving and interpersonal skills.
This is an exciting time to join Rave as we have experienced 10 years of double-digit growth and have recently received a significant investment by TCV (a leading private equity firm).
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Currently due to COVID all Ravers are working remotely.
Once Rave's offices safely re-open, this position can remain remote but will report into the headquarters in MA.
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What you'll do:
Rave's Database Administrator will be responsible for owning, tracking, and resolving all database-related incidents and configuration requests to meet our SLA targets in the companys Production and Development environment databases.
MySQL Server Maintenance
- Backups, restores, clustering and replication
- Evaluate, test and deploy new releases, patches and upgrades of the MySQL Server Platform
Monitoring and Planning
- Proactively monitor MySQL platform to ensure stability and uptime against SLA
- Implement improvements to our database performance and capacity monitoring in a continuous improvement cycle
Performance Tuning
- DB Security and Optimization using both native monitoring/troubleshooting tools and third-party tools
Security
- Deploy table, field and database encryption per best practices
- Maintain the server permissions model and monitoring of exceptions
Documentation creation and maintenance
- Server configuration, design decisions, and rationale
- Procedures and other related documents
Production Support
- On-Call rotation in support of Database Platform
- Off-hours maintenance activities as scheduled
- Ad hoc management of data for both reporting and performance adjustments
- Some support of MS-SQL based platform in a similar manner to the MySQL requirements above
Who you are:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience
- 4-8 years of experience as a database administrator, with at least 2 of those years being focused on MySQL 5+ on Linux
- An energetic self-starter, who is successful in a team-oriented environment
- Extensive knowledge of database systems with a focus on MySQL
- Familiarity with common tools and techniques needed to develop and maintain database systems
- Experience with Enterprise MySQL replication topologies
- Familiarity with modern development support tools, such as GIT, JIRA, and Confluence or equivalents
- Familiarity with some form of Unix/Linux shell scripting in support of MySQL (BASH, KSH, PERL, and/or Python)
- Familiarity with MySQL Server security hardening
- Skills with troubleshooting MySQL performance and failure issues in a rapid and comprehensive manner
- Strong attention to detail
- MySQL related certification a plus
Why you'll love it here:
- We build a very important product that has serious, life-saving implications but we don't take ourselves too seriously!
- Competitive base salary
- Ongoing training and coaching for career development
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage with significant company contribution
- Long and Short Term Disability
- 401K retirement savings program
- Employee Assistance Program
- Extremely generous paid time off
- On-site gym
- Pet Insurance
- Flexible hours
- Lively culture including happy hours, free lunch twice per month, company outings and more
Rave Mobile Safety is an Equal Opportunity Employer and utilizes the E-Verify Employment Eligibility Verification process.
