Job Description

Veeva Systems is looking for a bright, energetic, self-motivated Senior Database Administrator focused on customer-facing production infrastructure. This is a hands-on position and will work closely with the Operations, Engineering, and Support teams. You must be a strong team player that thrives working with speed in a fluid entrepreneurial environment. If you have at least 8 years of experience supporting primarily MySQL database and other database flavors servers in Production IT or customer-facing SaaS environments, we want to hear from you!What You'll Do Use backup and recovery best practices to ensure systems are protected from data loss in compliance with established business continuity and DR practicesDefine, develop, and deploy system monitoring requirements/thresholds as well as corrective actionsDocument all operational processes and procedures to optimize support and management of deployed systemsProduction Operations tasksProvide 24x7x365/On Call support within a rotationContribute towards new and ongoing Technology projects in areas of Scalability, Performance, and High AvailabilityResponsible for space management, backup, monitoring, and DB performanceCollaborateRequirements BS/BA Degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience5 years of experience as a MYSQL DBA2 years of experience with Linux-based systemsExperience with high-availability database solutions and architecturesExperience implementing a variety of data models, data access, and table maintenance codesExtensive experience resolving moderate to complex DB performance and capacity issues, replications, etc.Experience in configuration, upgrade, maintenance, and securityExperience executing MYSQL database backups, restores, and replicationAdvanced level knowledge of SQLExtensive experience working within structured change management processesExperience with process automation as it applies to the provisioning of resources within DB EngineeringNice to Have Scripting skills in any UNIX shell, Perl, and/or PythonSoftware as a service [SaaS]Ability to develop requirements for the tool sets needed to streamline and automate system installation and configuration proceduresExperience developing ansible and/or Terraform scriptingExperience building, supporting, and troubleshooting multi-tier, high-volume, production web installations (Load balanced server pools, App/DB, tier, etc)AWS RDS/Aurora replication, backup, and configuration managementExperience with DB monitoring and log management softwareImplementation/authoring of operational proceduresDevelop processes for optimizing database securityPostgres administrationSlow query diagnosing