Senior Database Engineer

  • Full-time

Company Description

Company Description

Cavista Holdings is driven by the belief that business should be a force for good. Our primary focus is on investing in the world’s most underserved regions, where we strive to bring together capital, expertise, and partnerships to unlock opportunities, create value, and transform lives.

Our investment strategy is centered around promoting economic development, job creation, and improving communities around the world. We have diversified our portfolio across various sectors, including agriculture, energy, hospitality, mining, and technology to advance our mission.

Cavista Holdings is searching for great talent. We are an open, agile environment, where transparent conversation ignites collaboration with a team of great thinkers. Everyone freely contributes, ideas override egos, and the best idea always wins. We embrace new technologies and pride ourselves in our great culture. In our world, opportunity paired with imagination is limitless and we build what others can only hope to dream. We build the best because we hire only the best! We’ve created an atmosphere allowing you to produce your best work, by catering to the creative.

    Job Description

    Job Description

    An innovative MySQL Database Administrator to assist in developing and creating cutting-edge solutions for the healthcare industry.  This is an opportunity to develop and create cutting-edge solutions for our products and services while being part of an extraordinary team. This role will ensure that the business is well-coordinated and productive by managing its processes and coaching its people. The area of responsibility for this role is very wide and thus requires thorough knowledge of various company processes.    

    What you will experience...

    • Work from Anywhere - Flexibility that allows you to work where you are most comfortable, whether at home, at work, or a combination of both. 
    • A fast-paced, collaborative team-oriented environment that encourages everyone to bring their authentic self to work every day. 
    • Professional development for career growth and advancement.
    • Competitive compensation with a full selection of benefits, including 20 days of paid time off + holidays + birthdays.

    Who we are…

     It’s simple.  We do business differently, by empowering our team to create fresh ideas which impact lives everywhere.  We don’t just dream it; we do it every day at Axxess, we bring life-changing technology to healthcare impacting the way people work, learn and grow their business.   Our edge does not come from our technology, it comes from our people.  We work as one team with a common goal to create shared success benefiting everyone.

    What you will do...

    • Participate in daily operations to support the business.    
    • Optimizing database (SQL calls) for max performance
    • Collaborate with management in the development of performance goals and long-term operational plans.    
    • Collaborate in operational processes and performance, recommend solutions for improvement.     
    • Experience with SQL and stored routines.
    • Experience working with HA Proxy, ProxySQL or MaxScale will be a plus.
    • Working knowledge with AWS database technologies like Aurora, RDS. 
    • Monitor day-to-day operational systems and processes that provide visibility into goals, progress, and obstacles for our key initiatives.    
    • Maintain relationships with all technology team members, external partners, and vendors to provide input regarding operational activity and strategic goals.    
    • Monitor and analyze key metrics for the day-to-day performance of the operations to ensure efficient and timely completion of tasks.    
    • Perform technical troubleshooting to diagnose, isolate and correct data and database issues. 

    Qualifications

     What you bring…  

    • Required – 8 years of MySQL management experience.
    • Required – Experience in MySQL configuring HA and clustering solutions.
    • Required – Large scale MySQL deployments.
    • Required – MySQL sharding architecture and techniques.
    • Ability to work with Linux/Unix based OS Environment.
    • MS SQL experience is a plus.
    • Backup/Restore and Disaster Recovery
    • Upgrading to higher version 
    • Software as a service industry experience is a plus.   
    • Cloud experience is a plus
    • Strong communication, interpersonal and professional skills.      
    • Proven ability to plan and manage the operational process for maximum efficiency and productivity.    
    • Demonstrated ability to solve problems and anticipate customer needs.         
    • Demonstrated ability to organize, set, and implement priorities and manage multiple tasks.

    Additional information

    Cavista offers even more

    • Competitive Compensation.
    • 5 - day workweek.
    • Flextime.
    • Competitive Health Insurance (Employee + Spouse + 4 children).
    • Wellness Programs
    • Employee Training Programs
    • Growth and Development
    • Remote working and IT Assets provided for Remote employees
    • Mentoring and Counseling
    • Referral Bonus
    • Work from Anywhere - Flexibility that allows you to work where you are most comfortable, whether at home, at work, or a combination of both 

    Additional Information

         • Competitive Compensation.
         • Flextime.
         • Competitive Health Insurance (Employee + Spouse + 4 children).
         • Growth and Development.