MySQL Database Administrator

PT Nextgen Inovasi Indonesia is looking for an experienced MySQL Database Administrator to manage, maintain, monitor, optimize, and secure MySQL/Percona/MariaDB databases, ensuring high availability, backup and recovery, and replication across servers and data centers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (S1) in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, or equivalent.
• 3–5 years of experience as a MySQL DBA, preferably in mission-critical production environments.
• Strong knowledge of MySQL, Percona, MariaDB, InnoDB, indexing, query optimization, stored procedures, user/privilege management, and troubleshooting.
• Experience in performance tuning, slow query analysis, execution plans, parameter tuning, capacity planning, and CPU, memory, disk I/O, and connection pool optimization.
• Understanding of full/incremental backups, point-in-time recovery, restore drills, backup retention, and periodic backup validation.
• Knowledge of master-slave/multi-source replication, GTID, failover/failback, clustering, high availability (HA), and cross-data-center/DRC replication.
• Experience in database monitoring, alert handling, log analysis, incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), patching, and preventive maintenance.
• Understanding of database hardening, role-based access, audit logs, encryption, privilege reviews, vulnerability patching, and data security controls.
• Familiarity with Linux servers, storage, basic networking, virtualization, and their impact on database performance.
• Detail-oriented, disciplined in documentation, strong communication skills, and able to collaborate with application, infrastructure, and security teams.
• Willing to work on-call or shifts when required.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure production database availability, performance, and reliability.
• Perform daily monitoring, performance tuning, backup and restore operations, and database capacity management.
• Manage replication, HA/DRC, failover readiness, and restore/failover drills.
• Support troubleshooting of application incidents related to databases.
• Maintain configuration documentation, SOPs, RCA reports, and database operational reports.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Percona XtraDB Cluster, MySQL Router/ProxySQL, Orchestrator, or similar HA tools.
• Experience in transaction, payment, switching systems, or 24/7 production environments.
• Knowledge of Bash/Python automation and monitoring dashboards such as Zabbix, Grafana, or PMM.
• Database, Linux, or cloud certifications are an advantage.