Database Engineer II - Live Ops

JOB DESCRIPTION
Our client, a video game company, is seeking a Database Engineer to join the team

As a Database Engineer you will be working on a global scope of databases servicing the breadth of services and games at. 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 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:

• 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 for MySQL 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
• Be part of active 24x7 on call rotation with your team

Required Qualifications: 

• 4+ years database administration experience working with large (and small) scale Relational MySQL databases
• 4+ years database administration experience working with cloud based and locally deployed MySQL technologies
• 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. 
• Associates/Bachelors Degree Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Ability to go on call every 4 weeks.

Desired Qualifications:

• Hands on experience with AWS RDS or Aurora
• Familiarity with NoSQL technologies 
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and microservice application developmentLinux systems administration skills (operate the database and the infrastructure)
• Experience programming in GoLang, Python and/or Java
• Ability to speak Korean and English conversationally