Database Administrator (212)

Lyris Technologies and EmailLabs are successful software companies located in Emeryville and Menlo Park respectively. Founded in 1994 and 1999, both companies have been profitable for many years and are now publicly owned by the J.L. Halsey Corporation.
Lyris and EmailLabs take pride in the successes we’ve attained so far.  Our products have each received significant industry recognition. As well, in 2005, EmailLabs was named to Inc.’s 500 Fastest Growing Companies in the U.S. and the year before, Lyris was named one of the 50 Fastest Growing Companies in the Bay Area by the East Bay Business Times.

We're looking for a Database Administrator to join our team! 

Job Responsibilities

• Solid tuning experience with MySQL, MyISAM, InnoDB, and SQL
• Prefer OLTP experience
• Strong foundation of IT knowledge desired
• 5 years or more of general production database administration on various platforms a plus (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MS-Sql, etc)
• Managing MySQL in production/QA/dev environment including installation, configuration, backup, recovery, upgrades and schema changes, etc
• Quickly diagnose server problems and employ preventive measures to maintain high availability servers
• Assistance in database daily operation
• Assistance in developing MySQL tools using PHP/Perl
• Estimating project duration, effort, resource load and cost
• Creating processes to ensure data integrity and identify potential data errors
• Participate in the team effort to design, develop, implement and/or maintain our databases
• Generate statistics and reports used to answer business questions
• Tuning and optimizing queries
• Meet challenges of designing and working on clustered production database systems in a high-availability 24/7 ASP environment
• Experience collaborating with software development on schema design and scaling
• Create and maintain internal processes to ensure data quality and availability
• Excellent problem solving skills and good communication skills are essential, as well as strong documentation proficiency and attention to detail
• Implementing Disaster Recovery and Backup solutions
• Willingness to thrive and succeed in a fast-paced, dynamic 24X7 environment
• Familiarity with Linux scripting and administration skills
• Experience with PHP-based database access is a plus
• Ability to work independently, as well as collaboratively with other staff members, to complete short and long-term projects
• Responding to outages both during normal business hours and in an after-hours, on-call capacity
• Producing documentation for use in configuration, repair and troubleshooting of managed database systems
• Participating in capacity planning and disaster recovery exercises while producing supporting documentation.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering degree or equivalent experience or training.
• 5+ years systems administration experience managing enterprise applications, with 4+ years as production DBA
• Experience with Linux and Windows environments
• Production experience with MySQL replication, multi master partitioning, clustering, backup, recovery, and performance tuning
• Strong knowledge of SQL including MySQL 5 stored procedures and triggers
• Proficiency in PHP, Ruby, Shell scripting, and thorough understanding of SSH, HTTP, networking and Apache Web server would be a huge plus
• Ability and willingness to support a 24/7 Production Environment
• Ability to work independently, strong analytical, communication and documentation skills
• Passion for databases and data modeling
• MySQL 5 Certification and knowledge of MS SQL Server 2005 would be helpful

Compensation: Competitive salary, bonus, and benefits
Timeframe: Immediate start for a full-time, permanent position

How to apply:

• Write a targeted cover letter that demonstrates you have visited our Web site and understand what we do
• How would you make a positive contribution to our business?
• Please reference job # 213 in your cover letter and email it along with your resume to jobs-adm@lyris.com.