At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead MySQL database management, ensuring performance, security, and high availability.
- Company: Join Verifone, a leader in payment technology with a collaborative culture.
- Benefits: Enjoy a hybrid work schedule, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Diverse workplace committed to equal opportunity and career development.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by optimising database solutions in a dynamic tech environment.
- Qualifications: 8+ years of MySQL experience and strong technical leadership skills required.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 90000 £ per year.
Hybrid Work Schedule
Verifone is proudly an in‑office work culture. We allow a hybrid work schedule but regularly revisit our attendance policy.
What's Exciting About the Role
Verifone is seeking an experienced My SQL lead who will be responsible for ensuring database performance, high availability, and security of My SQL clusters and single instances.
You will orchestrate upgrades, backups, HA/DR, and provisioning of database instances, collaborating closely with application architects, senior developers, and support engineers to design optimized database solutions.
Key Responsibilities
You will be responsible for ensuring that database management policies, processes, and procedures are established and followed, aligning with ITIL best practices and PCI standards.
You will review system design changes, liaise with release management and support teams, and maintain stable performance and security.
- Design, install, deploy, and manage My SQL on physical, virtual, AWS EC2, RDS, or Aurora instances.
- Build high‑availability, active‑active clusters in large‑scale, multi‑datacenter environments with minimal RPO/RTO.
- Implement uniform backup strategies and business continuity plans using Percona Xtra DB or custom automation scripts.
- Define comprehensive database monitoring, alerting, and documentation.
- Set up master‑master or master‑slave replication for high availability.
- Maintain performance through server optimizations.
- Guide engineering teams on best practices for server configuration and SQL tuning.
- Ensure security and compliance via OS and database version upgrades.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to create effective database solutions.
- Create and maintain ad‑hoc reports.
- Adhere to incident and change processes with thorough documentation and peer review.
- Support application release processes and automation.
- Mentor and develop other engineers on My SQL skills.
- Required Qualifications/Skills
- Minimum 8 years of experience managing My SQL.
- Experience with My SQL active/active cluster setups, upgrades, migrations, and scripting.
- Proficiency in Linux‑based My SQL administration.
- Experience with zero or minimal downtime upgrades in production.
- Designing and architecting My SQL environments using Galera Cluster or Percona Xtra DB.
- Deployment of database monitoring using PMM, New Relic, Datadog, Nagios, Grafana, ELK, or App D.
- Infrastructure as Code (Ia C) experience with Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
- Proficiency with cloud infrastructure, especially AWS RDS.
- Automation and scripting in Python, Shell, Go, Java, or Rust.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, or Git Lab.
- Advanced database performance tuning, SQL optimization, hardware configuration, and capacity planning.
- Strong technical leadership, mentoring, and time‑management skills.
- Preferred Skills (Not Mandatory)
- PCI (Payment Card Industry Data Security) standards experience.
- ITIL environment experience.
- Deep experience with SQL, stored procedures, triggers, batch jobs, reporting, and analytics.
- Experience managing Postgre SQL, SQL Server, and/or Oracle.
- Experience with No SQL and data engineering technologies such as Kafka, Redis, Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Redshift, and ETL.
- Experience with data analytics and business intelligence.
EEO Statement
Verifone is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
Verifone is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
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