Role: Senior My SQL DBA - Remote

Employment Type: Full-Time

Job Description:

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior My SQL 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 My SQL databases, low- or zero-downtime upgrade strategies, AWS-hosted production systems,and solid operational ownership.

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

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

tuning, and production support. Exposure to Mongo DB, Amazon Aurora Postgre SQL, and

regulated financial-services platforms is highly preferred.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and execute major and minor My SQL upgrades, including My SQL 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, Dev Ops, QA, compliance, and business teams.

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

issues, locking, deadlocks, and application connectivity problems.

• Manage

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