MySQL DBA

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.

1. Good comm skills are a big priority
2. Duration: 6-12 months + extensions

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