MySQL DBA

We specialize in Staffing, Consulting, Software Development, and Training along with IT services to small to medium size companies. AG's primary objective is to help companies maximize their IT resources and meet the ever-changing IT needs and challenges.

In addition, AG offers enterprise resource planning and enterprise application integration, supply-chain management, e-commerce solutions, and B2B public exchanges and B2B process integration solutions. Our company provides application analysis, design, development and programming, software engineering, systems development, testing, integration, and implementation, and management consulting services to various clients - including governmental agencies and private companies - throughout the United States and India.

We provide these services in multiple computing environments and use technologies such as client/server architecture, object-oriented programming languages and tools, distributed database management systems, state-of-the-art networking, and communications infrastructures. Our honest and realistic approach to recruiting dictates that AG does not entice or lure engineers from their employers. We represent only high caliber technical professionals who have committed to making a change required by career.

Company: Since starting the photo marketing revolution in 1998, eshots has evolved into the industry’s leading digital technology platform for experiential marketing. Voted one of Chicago’s Top-100 Digital Companies, eshots has continued knocking out double-digit growth through major enterprise agreements and direct technical integrations with the world’s most successful companies like General Motors, Nationwide Insurance, Mercedes-Benz, Xerox, and more. Our platform is used at a number of different events including Super Bowl, MLB, NASCAR, College Football, Auto Shows, Ride and Drives, Concerts and other client sponsored events.

The Opportunity: We’ve spent 15 years focused on building a transparent and collaborative culture and are looking to combine high caliber talent from outside the organization with a great group of existing leaders. New customer contracts, industry-leading client satisfaction, continuous profitability and increased capital investment in our Data Capture and Business Analytics Platforms have set our company up for exponential expansion over the next 5 years. If you’re someone with marketing automation or software services experience and are ready to join an award-winning, innovative company, we have a dynamic and passionate team that would like to meet you.

What we’re looking for: We are seeking a talented MySQL DBA / System Administrator with an entrepreneurial spirit to join our expanding team. He/she will provide technical vision and leadership for our database infrastructure as well as help support our Rackspace environment. This role will also play a key role in initiatives for data privacy and data security.

Winning Characteristics:

• Thrives in a fast-paced environment and collaborative environment.
• Enjoys new challenges and the opportunity to have a large impact on client deliverables.
• Prior experience in a smaller or fast-growth environment.
• Effective verbal and written communications skills.
• Previous experience with marketing or consumer data a plus.

In this role, you will:

• Monitor and optimize transaction and data warehouse databases for efficient data delivery.
• Ensure peak performance of all database systems to meet ever-increasing demand for our services.
• Manage data-related technology projects.
• Provide system administration support for Red Hat /CentOS Linux web and application servers.

Technologies you will work with:

• MySQL RDBMS (transactional databases and data warehouse)
• Red Hat/CentOS Linux web and application server experience
• Experience with Rackspace and virtual machine management, a plus
• Pentaho Data Integration (for ETL) and Python scripting experience, a plus

You must have:

• At least 5 years of database experience, including database administration, SQL development, query optimization, and schema design.
• Experience with large scale implementations of open source database servers including MySQL.
• Knowledge of replication, partitioning, sharing, and techniques for high availability.
• Experience designing and implementing Relational, Star and Snowflake schemas.
• Advanced SQL skills.
• At least 5 years’ experience managing database, web and application servers on Red Hat/CentOS Linux
• Experience with Business Intelligence (BI) reporting tools such as Information Builders Web FOCUS or Microstrategy, a definite plus
• Experience evaluating database solutions, including Big Data and NoSQL options, desired
• Experience recommending and implementing architecture changes leading to measurable improvement.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional work experience.

• Good comm skills are a big priority
• Duration: 6-12 months + extensions

• Interview Process: will hire off the phone and/or Skype