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Impact.com is seeking an Associate MySQL Database Administrator to join their team in Cape Town. The ideal candidate will be passionate about technology and customer success, contributing to a culture of ambition and curiosity. This role involves working with cutting-edge technologies to process large datasets and scale systems linearly.Impact.com is the world’s leading partnership management platform, transforming how businesses manage and optimize partnerships. The company's platform makes it easy for businesses to create, manage, and scale an ecosystem of partnerships.What This Role Involves:
  • Administering and supporting multiple MySQL database clusters in a sharded environment.
  • Managing database capacity and usage, including proactive capacity planning.
  • Optimizing queries and monitoring database performance.
  • Developing backup and recovery procedures.
  • Installing, configuring, upgrading, backing up, partitioning, and monitoring MySQL, MongoDB, and Clickhouse database clusters.
  • Collaborating with developers during the application development lifecycle for schema design, table creation, data types, indexing, and procedure/function development.
  • Proactively identifying performance bottlenecks and database risks.
Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in mathematics, statistics, economics, computer science, or a related field.
  • Minimum 2+ years’ experience as a MySQL Database Administrator.
  • Experience with MySQL / Percona Server 5.1, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 8.0 / CloudSQL / AWS RDS.
  • Experience with ProxySQL 2.x / Orchestrator, Percona XtraBackup.
  • 2+ years of experience in writing Linux shell scripts, perl scripts, Python etc.
  • Experience with High Availability MySQL/Percona environments.
  • Experience working with Large Data Volumes - 100’s of Terabytes to Petabytes.
  • Strong understanding of InnoDB and InnoDB tuning.
What Impact.com Offers:
  • Unlimited PTO policy.
  • Training & Development.
  • Medical Aid and Provident Fund.
  • Stock Options.
  • Internet Allowance.
  • Flexible work hours.
  • Casual work environment.
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