Careers at Percona

This position reports to a regional Consulting Director. You will work remotely; there is no central office, and most people work from their homes. Some travel will be required, both for onsite projects and internal meetings. Access to a reliable high-speed Internet connection is required. This position is for the EMEA timezone, and the consultant must be able to work full-time during EU business hours.

Core Skills

• Polite, friendly and professional; this position requires significant customer interaction.
• Expert knowledge of MySQL and InnoDB internals.
• Expert knowledge of Linux systems administration, including expertise on filesystems, hardware, and networking.
• Proficiency with gdb, strace, tcpdump, iostat, oprofile and other systems tools.
• Expert knowledge of LAMP technologies such as Apache, Memcached, and other popular F/OSS server software.
• Proficiency with Maatkit, MMM, and other supporting software suites.
• General programming and scripting abilities.
• Proven success working in a distributed environment where e-mail, IRC and voice calls are the only interaction with clients, colleagues and managers on a daily basis.
• Excellent written and spoken English. Blogging and conference presentations will be a regular requirement of this position.

Desired Skills

• MySQL DBA, MySQL Developer and MySQL Cluster Certifications.
• Expert in transaction processing systems.
• Supplemental MySQL technologies: XtraDB, Xtra-Backup, NDB Cluster, third-party storage engines and appliances, etc.
• Technologies such as LVS, Nginx, Sphinx, and load balancers.
• Expert knowledge of MySQL HA Solutions.
• Other operating systems such Windows, FreeBSD and OpenSolaris.
• Amazon's cloud offerings.
• Programming languages and platforms, especially frameworks such as Java - Hibernate, Ruby On Rails and Django.
• Expert knowledge of other RDBMS (Oracle, Postgres, MS SQL Server, Drizzle)

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