Role: Senior MySQL DBA - Remote

Employment Type: Full time

Job Description:

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior MySQL Database Administrator with deep experience in planning, executing, and supporting complex database upgrades and migrations for large, business-critical environments. The role requires hands-on expertise with terabyte-scale MySQL databases, low- or zero-downtime upgrade strategies, AWS-hosted production systems,and strong operational ownership.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience with MySQL upgrades, AWS RDS and

Aurora, database migration methods, high availability, disaster recovery, performance

tuning, and production support. Exposure to MongoDB, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, and

regulated financial-services platforms is highly preferred.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and execute major and minor MySQL upgrades, including MySQL 5.7 to 8.x

migrations, for large production databases.

• Design upgrade and migration strategies for databases ranging from hundreds of

gigabytes to multiple terabytes.

• Lead in-place upgrades,



logical and physical migrations, replication-based

migrations, Blue/Green deployments, and AWS DMS-based migrations.

• Perform upgrade readiness assessments covering compatibility, deprecated

features, SQL modes, drivers, plugins, stored procedures, triggers, events, and

application dependencies.

• Create upgrade runbooks, rollback plans, validation checklists, risk assessments,

implementation plans, and stakeholder communication plans.

• Conduct pre- and post-upgrade validation, including row counts, checksums,

reconciliation queries, performance benchmarking, and application testing.

• Coordinate production upgrade and migration activities with application,

infrastructure, cloud, security, DevOps, QA, compliance, and business teams.

• Troubleshoot upgrade failures, replication lag, data inconsistencies, performance

issues, locking, deadlocks, and application connectivity problems.

• Manage cutover

📌 MYSQL DBA (India)
🏢 Trantor
📍 India