Database Administrator

Department: Research and Development

Reports To: Senior Vice President of Software Development

Location: Blacksburg, Virginia

Status: Full-Time

As the database administrator, you enjoy your job because it just doesn't seem like work to you. You love designing, scaling, and maintaining databases, making sure Mailtrust can perform to its highest potential. You, just like all of your coworkers, strive to make our company the most trusted email provider in the world. We need you because your talent, hard work, and dedication allow us to produce the software that will take us to the next level. Are you ready?

If you want your paycheck:

Your responsibilities to the customers (the people who pay us the big bucks) include:

• Ensuring maximum uptime for all of our databases
• Troubleshooting performance issues and establishing database standards and best practices
• Helping to support the best email hosting system in the world
• Providing on-call support for the systems and associated software products
• Responding to escalated questions quickly and efficiently

Your responsibilities to your co-workers include:

• Designing, testing, maintaining, scaling, and installing all databases
• Proactively monitoring databases for optimum performance and capacity restraints
• Communicating with technical and operational staff to ensure database integrity and security
• Defining and/or implementing access controls to data
• Creating and testing data backups and making sure they are functioning properly
• Setting up and monitoring of data replication

Important Skills and Characteristics

• Experience with production DBA, managing multiple databases, Linux, and Windows
• Knowledge of MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server
• Familiarity with database centric hardware deployment and data communications networks
• Knowledge of current relational database strategies including DB Normalization, Performance Tuning, Transactions, Replication, and Foreign Keys
• Ability to interpret and write complex SQL series
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to express ideas clearly while working with a team or independently

You're going to do just fine here if:

You have an understanding of database strategies and have the ability to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our everyday operations, are organized, can multi-task, and the ability to work under pressure. Most of all, you have the passion to work in an internet-driven, fast-paced environment, and are dedicated to providing our customers with the best email in the world.

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