Database Administrator

Pro-active. Knowledgeable. Professional. These are some of the many ways our customers describe the excellent service PEER 1 provides. PEER 1 is a leading IT infrastructure provider to startups and small to mid-size businesses. We deliver highly scalable network and hosting solutions that allow customers to focus on the possibilities of the Internet, not the problems. As network innovators and customer service specialists, we are constantly growing and looking for exceptional people to join our dynamic team.

We are currently seeking a Database Administrator for our Atlanta office.

Job Title: Database Administrator
Location: Atlanta

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following:

Ensures the database environment is designed and managed to meet business and IT demands for availability, performance and manageability
Ensures implementation of industry best practices in systems administration.
Serves as the point of contact for advanced level troubleshooting issues, and performs hands-on systems administration as required.
Manages lower level database administrators.
Involved in application development projects to evolve the database architecture and design.
Monitors database operations and replication.
Analyzes and responds to performance and other maintenance issues.
Inventories and documents forms, reports, notices, etc.
Participates in the creation of development, staging & production database instances, and the migration of those instances from one environment to another.
Tests and corrects errors and refines changes.
Tunes the performance of all the staging and production database instances.
Performs back-up and recovery.
Plans and executes disaster recovery.
Performs complex query development.
Performs complex replication troubleshooting
Other duties that are within education and experience or the incumbent may be assigned for the betterment of the company.

JOB SPECIFICATIONS

Demonstrated exceptional database design and SQL programming skills to perform data
Troubleshooting and data manipulation tasks.
Administering of InnoDB and MyISAM table types.
Experience with MYSQL and PGSql replication.
Experience with multi-master clustering (HA).
Experience with MYSQL performance tuning and optimization (query optimization, index tuning, caching and buffer tuning).
Experience with data profiling, meta data analysis, data modeling and relational schema design.
Ability to troubleshoot problems in person, over the phone, or via email.
Solid understanding and experience in disaster recovery, planning and implementation.
Experience with backup and recovery process.
Knowledge/experience creating automated reports using Perl is a plus.
Must have hands on experience in Linux and be a certified DBA
Attention to detail.
Ability to diagnose and resolve a broad range of technical problems.
Strong teamwork, leadership and collaboration skills.
Strong communication skills are necessary for interaction with other teams and departments.