Database Administrator

**Your Job**
We are looking for a DBA and with Cloud-technology Database Administrator (DBA) who is eager to contribute to the success of a diverse team. The DBA will be part of an international team, providing database management and hosting services to various Koch Industries companies. This role will be customer-facing, and acta as the primary point of contact for one of Koch Business Solutions' customers. Koch Industries is a privately held global organization with over 120,000 employees around the world, with subsidiaries involved in manufacturing, trading, and investments. Koch Technology Center (KTC) is being developed in India to extend its IT operations, as well as act as a hub for innovation in the IT function. As KTC rapidly scales up its operations in India, it's employees will get opportunities to carve out a career path for themselves within the organization. This role will have the opportunity to play a critical part in helping continue strengthen the capabilities and technical offerings of the Koch Technology Center (KTC).

**Our Team**

DBA will work closely with the customer, owning the database services relationship between that customer and Koch Business Solutions. DBA will also develop solutions and services catering to specific business issues as well as resolve database-related incidents. DBA shall have excellent communication and problem-solving skills and shall exhibit strong teamwork and organization skills. DBA will be expected to treat customer needs as a shared responsibility, rather than individual requests and needs.

**What You Will Do**
- Using your creativity and experience to develop and maintain innovative services in support of a growing portfolio of managed database systems.
- Providing tactical and strategic solutions to solve specific business problems by working closely with customers and other DBAs.
- Lending your database expertise to ongoing development projects across Koch companies.
- Resolving database-related incidents and service requests within SLAs.
- Communicate directly with customer database stakeholders.

**Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)**
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Math, or related field.
- 5+ years of hands on MYSQL database and MSSQL database.
- 2+ years of hands-on administration experience in Cloud-technology databases, including AWS RDS databases.
- SQL performance tuning.
- MySQL DB Upgrade and Migration.
- Monitoring & Troubleshooting.
- Replication configuration and troubleshooting.
- Proven track record managing SQL server DB Version 2005 to 2019 instances in a Standalone and Clustered configuration and MySQL version 5.1 ,8.0 and above.
- Proven ability to administer large databases in a mission critical environment.
- Understanding & experience of database and storage design and best practices for AWS and on-prem.
- Familiarity with different database technology high availability solutions.
- Experience with different backup/restore and disaster recovery solutions for MySQL.

**What Will Put You Ahead**
- Experience with:

- Any major cloud service provider (AWS, Azure, Oracle)
- Databases in Docker, AWS ECS containers
- PL/SQL, stored procedures, packages, functions, and triggers
- PostgreSQL administration.
- Expertise in automation using ansible and shell.
- Familiarity with AWS components including EC2, S3, EBS.
- Solid experience in troubleshooting MySQL and MSSQL.
- Good experience in migration and upgrade projects

**Who We Are**

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

**" KOCH is an Equal Opportunity Employer "