Database Engineer
At Akkodis, we use our insight, knowledge, and global resources to make exceptional connections every day. With 60 branch offices located strategically throughout North America, we are positioned perfectly to deliver the industry’s top talent to each of our clients. Clients choose Akkodis as their workforce partner to solve staffing challenges that range from locating hard-to-find niche talent to completing quick-fill demands.
JOB TITLE: Database Engineer( MYSQL and Live Operations expereince)
EMPLOYMENT TYPE/DURATION: -1 year contract to start
COMPENSATION: Rate $70-$90/hour
LOCATION DETAILS: Remote -PST Hours - 8-5
Database Engineering is challenged with administration, developing and scaling database capabilities to meet the scale and performance of all shared services. The team aspires to become a center of excellence for shared persistent data store technologies.
As a Database Engineer you will be working on a global scope of databases servicing the breadth of services . You will be designing and administering solutions to help teams implement database standards you have established to make service databases easier to operate and maintain. You’ll be partnering and coordinating with engineers across, and ironing out overlooked details that matter most to our players.
You’re right for this role if the idea of working on high impact, high visibility, high expectation projects that provide demonstrated database improvements for our players excites you. You love building iterative approaches to problems and know how to compromise between ideal solutions and practical outcomes.
Responsibilities:
- Respond to on-call / customer / emergent work relating to database deployments and maintenances
- Configure, deploy, maintain, and optimize new and existing database infrastructure to support new and existing games and services
- Design and implement routine data migrations between MySQL data sources as part of routine database consolidation, upgrades and host changes
- Design and implement replication and backup technologies for critical MySQL databases
- Design and implement Database level monitoring and alerting forMySQL database stack
- Design and implement Relational Database schema and query changes, supporting assorted service and game development teams with their database performance and application needs.
- Design and implement automation to manage database infrastructure
Required Qualifications:
- 3+ years database administration experience working with cloud based and locally deployed MySQL technologies
- 4+ years database administration experience working with large scale Relational MySQL databases
- Experience with full database development life cycle
- Proven ability to administrate, maintain, and recover MySQL databases
- Proven ability to design and implement automated data migrations using replication, code and business logic between data systems
- Proven ability to work with development teams and service code on schema, query and database design
- Ability to optimize Database and SQL Query performance
- Ability to solve problems with programming scripts (python, bash etc)
- Ability to implement solutions through automation
- Proven experience using monitoring and alerting tools to determine health of your database ecosystem.
- Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience.
Desired Qualifications:
- Hands on experience with AWS RDS or Aurora
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and microservice application development Linux systems administration skills (operate the database and the infrastructure)
- Experience programming in GoLang, Python and/or Java
If you have questions about the position, please contact Dana More at dana.more@akkodisgroup.com
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled Benefit offerings include medical, dental, vision, term life insurance, short-term disability insurance, additional voluntary benefits, commuter benefits and 401K plan. Our program provides employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. Available paid leave may include Paid Sick Leave, where required by law; any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law; and Holiday pay upon meeting eligibility criteria. Disclaimer: These benefit offerings do not apply to client-recruited jobs and jobs which are direct hire to a client
To read our Candidate Privacy Information Statement, which explains how we will use your information, please visit https://www.modis.com/en-us/candidate-privacy/ The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
At Akkodis, we use our insight, knowledge, and global resources to make exceptional connections every day. With 60 branch offices located strategically throughout North America, we are positioned perfectly to deliver the industry’s top talent to each of our clients. Clients choose Akkodis as their workforce partner to solve staffing challenges that range from locating hard-to-find niche talent to completing quick-fill demands.
JOB TITLE: Database Engineer( MYSQL and Live Operations expereince)
EMPLOYMENT TYPE/DURATION: -1 year contract to start
COMPENSATION: Rate $70-$90/hour
LOCATION DETAILS: Remote -PST Hours - 8-5
Database Engineering is challenged with administration, developing and scaling database capabilities to meet the scale and performance of all shared services. The team aspires to become a center of excellence for shared persistent data store technologies.
As a Database Engineer you will be working on a global scope of databases servicing the breadth of services . You will be designing and administering solutions to help teams implement database standards you have established to make service databases easier to operate and maintain. You’ll be partnering and coordinating with engineers across, and ironing out overlooked details that matter most to our players.
You’re right for this role if the idea of working on high impact, high visibility, high expectation projects that provide demonstrated database improvements for our players excites you. You love building iterative approaches to problems and know how to compromise between ideal solutions and practical outcomes.
Responsibilities:
- Respond to on-call / customer / emergent work relating to database deployments and maintenances
- Configure, deploy, maintain, and optimize new and existing database infrastructure to support new and existing games and services
- Design and implement routine data migrations between MySQL data sources as part of routine database consolidation, upgrades and host changes
- Design and implement replication and backup technologies for critical MySQL databases
- Design and implement Database level monitoring and alerting forMySQL database stack
- Design and implement Relational Database schema and query changes, supporting assorted service and game development teams with their database performance and application needs.
- Design and implement automation to manage database infrastructure
Required Qualifications:
- 3+ years database administration experience working with cloud based and locally deployed MySQL technologies
- 4+ years database administration experience working with large scale Relational MySQL databases
- Experience with full database development life cycle
- Proven ability to administrate, maintain, and recover MySQL databases
- Proven ability to design and implement automated data migrations using replication, code and business logic between data systems
- Proven ability to work with development teams and service code on schema, query and database design
- Ability to optimize Database and SQL Query performance
- Ability to solve problems with programming scripts (python, bash etc)
- Ability to implement solutions through automation
- Proven experience using monitoring and alerting tools to determine health of your database ecosystem.
- Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience.
Desired Qualifications:
- Hands on experience with AWS RDS or Aurora
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and microservice application development Linux systems administration skills (operate the database and the infrastructure)
- Experience programming in GoLang, Python and/or Java
If you have questions about the position, please contact Dana More at dana.more@akkodisgroup.com
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled Benefit offerings include medical, dental, vision, term life insurance, short-term disability insurance, additional voluntary benefits, commuter benefits and 401K plan. Our program provides employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. Available paid leave may include Paid Sick Leave, where required by law; any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law; and Holiday pay upon meeting eligibility criteria. Disclaimer: These benefit offerings do not apply to client-recruited jobs and jobs which are direct hire to a client
To read our Candidate Privacy Information Statement, which explains how we will use your information, please visit https://www.modis.com/en-us/candidate-privacy/ The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
