\u003Cstrong>What You Will Do\u003C/strong>\u003Cbr />Percona Support is a global, elite team of engineers who love getting to the bottom of weird and interesting database behavior. We understand our customers’ business needs and the nuances of their technical environments. This allows us to help our customers see the big picture and identify opportunities to improve their overall database infrastructures.\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\u003Cbr />This is \u003Cstrong>not\u003C/strong> a boring, entry-level role where you’ll just be triaging the boring and monotonous. We are not a call-center operation, we are a team of senior IT folks with a collective knowledge that solves problems for Inc 50. companies and works with some of the largest MySQL deployments in the world.\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\u003Cbr />You’ll be teaming with some of the most well known database ninjas in the industry who are even better teammates, friends and mentors. This is a mid-level position, where senior personnel will be assisting you to improve and develop your own skills and become more proficient with databases than you can possibly imagine.\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\u003Cbr />This is a 100% remote role, so you can be located anywhere in the world. All you need is a decent, stable internet connection.\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\u003Cbr />\u003Cstrong>What You Have Done\u003C/strong>\u003C/p>\u003Cul style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\u003Cli>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Good hands-on knowledge of both MySQL and InnoDB.\u003C/p>\u003C/li>\u003Cli>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Be a skilled with some of the MySQL ecosystem of tools and technologies.\u003C/p>\u003C/li>\u003Cli>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Knowledgeable about performance tuning, query optimization, & index tuning.\u003C/p>\u003C/li>\u003Cli>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Know-how of backup solutions such as Xtrabackup, mydumper, etc, and also of Point-in-Time-Recovery.\u003C/p>\u003C/li>\u003Cli>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Some experience with High Availability solutions (replication, routers, proxies, etc).\u003C/p>\u003C/li>\u003Cli>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Exposure and practice with zero-downtime procedures.\u003C/p>\u003C/li>\u003Cli>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Good understanding of monitoring requirements.\u003C/p>\u003C/li>\u003Cli>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Demonstrable experience of administering Linux based systems.\u003C/p>\u003C/li>\u003Cli>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Ability to troubleshoot methodically, identifying and applying fixes for known errors, and when necessary, capacity to think outside of the box to resolve complex issues.\u003C/p>\u003C/li>\u003Cli>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Be self-taught and enthused to grow your skill set with new technologies as the industry continues to evolve.\u003C/p>\u003C/li>\u003Cli>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Availability to travel for the occasional team meeting, conference or customer visit.\u003C/p>\u003C/li>\u003Cli>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience working with customers in English.\u003C/p>\u003C/li>\u003C/ul>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\u003Cstrong>What Will Make you Stand Out\u003C/strong>\u003C/p>\u003Cul style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\u003Cli>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience working in SLA-bound operations.\u003C/p>\u003C/li>\u003Cli>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Open Source Community contributions (could be a blog).\u003C/p>\u003C/li>\u003Cli>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Good practice with working over screen-sharing/phone.\u003C/p>\u003C/li>\u003Cli>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Knowledge of any of the following technologies:\u003C/p>\u003Cul style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\u003Cli>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Galera / XtraDB Cluster / ProxySQL / Orchestrator\u003C/p>\u003C/li>\u003Cli>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Cloud Services such as AWS and RDS, Azure, GCP\u003C/p>\u003C/li>\u003Cli>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Percona Monitoring & Management (PMM) and other monitoring tools\u003C/p>\u003C/li>\u003Cli>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Configuration management solutions such as Ansible, Puppet or Chef\u003C/p>\u003C/li>\u003Cli>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Percona Toolkit suite\u003C/p>\u003C/li>\u003Cli>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">MySQL DBA, Professional Certifications\u003C/p>\u003C/li>\u003Cli>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">MongoDB\u003C/p>\u003C/li>\u003Cli>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">PostgreSQL\u003C/p>\u003C/li>\u003Cli>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">MyRocks\u003C/p>\u003C/li>\u003Cli>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Kubernetes / OpenShift / Docker\u003C/p>\u003C/li>\u003Cli>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Advanced Linux troubleshooting tools (gdb, perf, strace, bpftrace, tcpdump, etc)\u003C/p>\u003C/li>\u003C/ul>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\u003C/p>\u003C/li>\u003C/ul>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\u003Cbr />\u003Cem>\u003Cstrong>\u003Cu>Location: \u003C/u>\u003C/strong>\u003C/em> Remote, work from home position anywhere. 5 day work week including weekend. Participation with the on-call team schedule. You will need to be able to travel to company events, conferences, etc.\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\u003Cbr />Your legal agreement will be with Percona Staffing LLC, a USA corporation and a subsidiary of Percona LLC.\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\u003Cbr />Please review our \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.percona.com/sites/default/files/candidate-privacy-policy.pdf\">Percona GDPR Privacy Policy\u003C/a>.\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><!--WEB-ONLY-->\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\u003Cstrong>Why Percona?\u003C/strong>\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">At Percona, we believe an open world is a better world. Our mission is to enable everyone to innovate freely, by providing the best open source database software, support, and services. We make databases and applications run better through a unique combination of expertise and open source software built with the community for you. Our technical teams are experts in MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB.\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Percona is proud to be a remote-only and globally dispersed workforce – we have colleagues in more than 50 countries! We offer a collaborative, highly-engaged culture where your ideas are welcome and your voice is heard.\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Our staff receives generous benefits including flexible work hours and various paid time off programs, all your equipment for your remote office, funds for career development (external training, certifications, conferences), ongoing connectivity allowances, and the opportunity to participate in our equity incentive plan. We also have benefits that support a healthy work/life balance such as The Percona Adventure Team, Work-from-Anywhere, FlowDays, FryDays, and overall flexibility. We also support being socially responsible through our PAVE volunteering program and Women Transforming Technology.\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">If you love the idea of working with a high-growth tech company that is one of the best in the business and known globally as a leader in the open-source database space, let’s talk!\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Connect with us and stay up to date on our latest news and developments by following us on \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"postings-link\" href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?fetchDeterministicClustersOnly=true&heroEntityKey=urn:li:organization:421929&keywords=percona&origin=RICH_QUERY_TYPEAHEAD_HISTORY&position=0&searchId=29912b91-aeb0-4aa6-b3ab-fc70c59fa57f&sid=u0N\">LinkedIn\u003C/a> and \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"postings-link\" href=\"https://twitter.com/Percona?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">Twitter\u003C/a>. 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