Company: HiveLive Inc

Location: Boulder, CO

Description:

Database Performance Consultant

http://hivelive.com/about/careers

HiveLive is growing, and the required scale is presenting interesting and challenging demands upon our real-time application data store. We are looking for a part-time experienced DBA or database system architect, to periodically help us with schema and query optimization, clustering design and replication strategies.

Responsibilities
* Review application schema and make recommendations for design enhancements
* Participate in DB load testing to identify bottlenecks and devise solutions
* Assist in evolving the schema to support growing scale include relational database solutions to improve performance
* Analyze requirements and design database replication/clustering solutions for a heavy distributed read/write application

Essential Qualifications
* 8-10 years proven industry experience creating and enhancing high-load database solutions for enterprises
* Training and certification as a DBA
* Expert-level experience in MySQL technologies in Unix environments
* Experience optimizing database performance of complex object-oriented PHP applications
* Diverse experience with other enterprise RDBMS like Oracle, Sybase, DB2 etc
* Great communication skills, able to learn new environment quickly
* Great writing skills – experience creating quality documentation

Desired Qualifications
* Experience Participated in teams using Agile development processes (Scrum, XP, etc)

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