Hi List,
Unfortunately, I have not received an awful amount of interest to this
JOB post yet and hope members do not mind me re-posting this with a
little more information.
The client is looking for a high-level specialist, someone who has
experience in large-scale deployments. They are very much looking for
someone who has this experience and can come in and tell them what they
need to be doing without going through a significant learning process
first. Having also rediscussed the job with the client I can now say
that exclusive 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 candidates have
experience designing large, replicated, globally distributed databases
built for performance.
>From past experience I have recruited a MySQL DB Admin/ Architect in
Reading on a base salary of £55k. This client is open-minded to paying
this or above and even helping with relocation for the right person.
Working hours are flexible in the sense that you could come in early and
leave early etc.
Please do e-mail me off list for more information. My e-mail address is
james@??? - alternatively you can leave a message for me on my
mobile which is 07952 145 127.
All the best,
JAMES
> On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 11:09 +0000, jt@??? wrote:
> > JOB:
> >
> > My name is James and I am an open source recruitment consultant. I have
> > sought permission to be allowed to post on this list a job vacancy
> > although I do not plan on misusing this, and will restrict my posts to
> > one per month and prefix each post with JOB: in the subject and header
> > of the email body.
> >
> > At the same time I would also like the list to be aware that I run Linux
> > myself (currently content with Opensuse 11.1) and have prior experience
> > of several other distributions too. Where possible I am happy to
> > contribute to list discussions too.
> >
> > Currently I'm working with a client in Reading (Berkshire) that are
> > looking to recruiting a permanent MySQL database architect to work
> > closely with their development and operations teams.
> >
> > 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 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 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 part of the job will involve finding new opportunities to
> > exploit new features or better use existing ones there are no immediate
> > plans to upgrade to 5.1.
> >
> > 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, there is
> > 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.
> >
> > I've had a lot of experience recruiting MySQL database admins and
> > administrators so I have a unique appreciation as to what the client
> > should expect to pay and they understand this and are open to my
> > guidance. If anybody is interested in this job and would like to have a
> > chat with me, I can be contacted at the e-mail address james@???
> >
> > I'm also welcome to suggestions on how to make any of my future JOB
> > posts more appealing and suitable to the list.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > James
> >
> > . . . . . .
> >
> > >> to learn more about Camalyn please isit http://www.camalyn.org
> >
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> >
