MySQL DBA Expert - AWS RDS & Aurora
First seen by Alion on Sep 28, 2026.
Job Title : Senior MySQL DBA (AWS RDS & Aurora)
Experience : 5+ Years
Mandatory Skills :
- Strong experience in MySQL Database Administration (MySQL 5.7/8.0).
- Hands-on experience with AWS RDS for MySQL and Amazon Aurora MySQL.
- Experience in production support, incident management, and troubleshooting.
- Good understanding of Aurora architecture, Multi-AZ, Read Replicas, Failover, and High Availability.
- Expertise in MySQL performance tuning, query optimization, indexing, and replication.
- Experience with backup, recovery, snapshots, and point-in-time recovery (PITR).
- Knowledge of AWS monitoring tools such as CloudWatch and Performance Insights.
- Experience with MySQL upgrades, patching, and migration activities.
- Strong understanding of database security, user management, and access controls.
- Linux administration and Shell scripting knowledge.
Preferred Skills :
- Experience with MySQL Group Replication, InnoDB Cluster, ProxySQL, or MySQL Router.
- Experience with ServiceNow and enterprise production support environments.
Responsibilities :
- Provide L2/L3 support for MySQL databases across AWS and on-prem environments.
- Monitor database health, performance, availability, and capacity.
- Troubleshoot database incidents, replication issues, and performance bottlenecks.
- Execute database changes, upgrades, patching, backup, and recovery activities.
- Participate in on-call support and major incident management.
Skills
DBA, Aurora PostgreSQL, AWS, Amazon RDS, Database Performance Tuning, InnoDB