Senior Database Administrator

Company Description Solverminds Solutions & Technologies Pvt Ltd is a global technology company specializing in enterprise resource management solutions, consulting, and data analytics for the maritime industry. The company focuses on building a truly integrated enterprise application suite for liner shipping, covering liner operations, ship management, agency management, and advanced analytics. Its products run on an advanced web platform designed to reduce IT costs while enhancing user experience, scalability, and implementation speed. Powered by advanced data analytics and optimization engines, Solverminds delivers automation, actionable insights, predictive results, and prescriptive recommendations for better business outcomes. Founded in 2003, Solverminds is headquartered in Chennai, India, with additional offices in Singapore and the UK, and brings together domain experts, business consultants, data scientists, OR scientists, and technology innovators. Role Description The Senior Database Administrator is a full-time, on-site role based in Chennai, responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance, and security of mission-critical databases supporting maritime and enterprise applications. Daily activities include installing, configuring, and maintaining database systems; monitoring performance; optimizing queries and indexes; and managing backups, recovery, and high-availability setups. The role involves designing and refining database schemas, implementing replication and clustering strategies, and troubleshooting complex issues across development, testing, and production environments. The Senior Database Administrator will collaborate closely with application developers, data analysts, and infrastructure teams to support new features, data integrations, and upgrades, while enforcing best practices in governance, access control, and compliance. The individual is expected to take ownership of database standards, documentation, and capacity planning to support growth and scalability. Required Skills
• Strong hands-on experience with MySQL 8.0+, database administration, and production support.
• Excellent SQL skills and expertise in query optimization and performance tuning.
• Strong understanding of indexing strategies, index selectivity, composite indexes, and query execution plans.
• Experience with MySQL InnoDB internals, transactions, locking, isolation levels, and concurrency management.
• Expertise in identifying and resolving slow queries, deadlocks, blocking sessions, and resource bottlenecks.
• Hands-on experience with database backup, point-in-time recovery, replication, and HA/DR configurations.
• Knowledge of database security, user privileges, encryption, and auditing.
• Experience with database monitoring, capacity planning, performance baselining, and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with Linux administration and shell scripting.
• Experience managing large databases and handling production workloads. Preferred

Skills:
• Experience with Azure Database for MySQL, AWS RDS for MySQL, or other managed MySQL services.
• Knowledge of cloud database migration, cost optimization, and monitoring tools.
• Experience with Percona Toolkit, MySQL Enterprise tools, or equivalent database diagnostic utilities.
• Exposure to automation, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and database change management.
• Experience with high-volume transactional applications and 24×7 production environments.