hi List Members - following on from my previous post (below) and a shift in my clients internal requirements - where the emphasis is no longer on recruiting someone into a design role, although this *may* be there in the future for someone to grow into - the client would like to hire instead a *nix sysadmin (pref CentOS or RH) that has good MySQL skills, other DB skills, e.g. Oracle, are no longer a substitute as the focus is once again more on someone who can improve the client's existing systems.
Please contact me off list (using james@camalyn.org) for further details.
all the best, JAMES
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 21:26 +0000, jt@camalyn.org wrote:
JOB:
hi List,
My name is James and I'm an open source recruiter currently working with a client in Reading (Berkshire, UK) who are looking to recruit a database architect (experience with MySQL is not necessarily what the client are looking for, although the database architect should certainly be familiar with MySQL. What’s more important is that the DBA should have experience designing large, replicated, globally distributed databases built for performance).
The DB Architect will work closely with the development and operations teams - both of which are growing parts of the clients overall business.
Whilst the developers have had some involvement with capacity planning and performance monitoring of the live system in conjunction with the Operations team this responsibility will move entirely to the database architect over time.
This isn't a development role so the db architect wouldn't be taking over the writing of all SQL or anything (which would be impractical in any case) but they would be expected to use their expertise in advising the developers how best to tune their code. Stored procedures are not currently used but they will probably look at it in the future and this again would be something that the architect would certainly get involved in as well as requirement to revisit existing SQL with a view to perhaps rewrite and/ or optimise.
They are running a mixture of MySQL 4.1 and 5.0. They don't run enterprise as they always aim to employ talented staff so they can support everything as far as possible in house. This goes for the OS as well, which is why they use CentOS and not RHEL. Although as part of the role's remit will be to find new opportunities to exploit new features or better use existing ones there are no immediate plans to upgrade to 5.1 as they are quite happy for early adopters to find and fix the bugs before they make any decision on it.
Currently there are no specific bottlenecks or db problems as such, the focus is changing in such a way that they need to be able to store more data and consequently they need to have the architect in place. However, although there are no specific issues, there is also a focus on continual improvement of what they have. As with all IT systems, there is always something that can be optimised. Identifying potential future bottlenecks and avoiding them is also part of the role.
In terms of the number of high transactional servers - which would be the definite focus - we are looking at high 30s. They do use MySQL replication but not clustering at this time.
If anybody is interested in discussing this role with me further (including salary) please contact me off list using james@camalyn.org
Please understand that I did also send an email requesting permission to send this e-mail to the Centos list owners - but have had no reply or acknowledgement.
All the best, JAMES
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