Position: Lead DB\SQL Engineer (Canada)
Company: Lohika
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

**Purpose of the job:**
Our client is one of the world’s largest online marketplaces, dealing with one billion events per day.
Currently, we are building a team to work onsite in Vancouver We are looking for Lead/Senior DBA Engineer, who will contribute to the optimization of existing DB monitoring and maintenance and resolve the ongoing issues with the number of high loaded DBs in Amazon RDS and MySQL infrastructure.

**MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:**
Resolve most complex DBA tasks
Monitor DBs and troubleshoot ongoing issues
Migrate DBs
Contribute to DBA runbook
Improve key operational performance indicators
Work closely with Engineering and Infrastructure teams
Work in close contact with team members and project stakeholders on the client’s site

**EDUCATION, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:**
**MUST HAVE:**
BS\MS in Computer science or related fields
5+ years in DBA of MySQL
Expert at troubleshooting performance issues related to CPU, memory, I/O, disk space and other types of resource contention
Extensive knowledge of AWS RDS is required
Experience in Migration of highly loaded DBs
at least Upper-Intermediate level of English
**WOULD BE A PLUS:**
Scripting experience is big plus
Experience with Aurora is plus