Senior Database Administrator

Get to Know Us:
It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing!
At BlackLine, we're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications.
Since being founded in 2001, BlackLine has become a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. Our vision is to modernize the finance and accounting function to enable greater operational effectiveness and agility, and we are committed to delivering innovative solutions and services to empower accounting and finance leaders around the world to achieve Modern Finance.
Being a best-in-class SaaS Company, we understand that bringing in new ideas and innovative technology is mission critical. At BlackLine we are always working with new, cutting edge technology that encourages our teams to learn something new and expand their creativity and technical skillset that will accelerate their careers.
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Make Your Mark:
The Senior Database Administrator plays a vital role in the performance, delivery, stability, scalability and security of the databases we use, while continually driving forward improvements and optimizations at the database layer.
As a member of the database team, you will be involved in the planning, development, and maintenance of the database, including troubleshooting issues, security and access controls, and collaborating with other teams to define and build new features, optimize existing features, and collaborate in order to drive growth, improve controls and processes, and reduce overhead and complexity. In this role, we are looking for people who are team players, passionate about their areas of expertise, and constantly striving to learn and improve, not just in the sense of their own skills, but also in growing with peers whom they work with day-to-day. If you are someone who strives for excellence in all that they do, including helping those in your team, and someone who wants to ultimately deliver the best value and success you can, then we want to talk to you.
You'll Get To:

• Manage MySQL Server Databases through multiple product lifecycle environments, including development, research, and mission-critical production systems
• Configure and maintain database servers and processes, including monitoring, system health, and performance in order to ensure high performance, availability, and security
• Independently, or in conjunction with peers as beneficial, analyze, solve, and correct issues in real-time, proving end-to-end problem-solving
• Assist and support development staff with tuning complex queries, generally supporting the delivery of high-quality value and features to BlackLine's customers
• Refine, automate, and advocate for automation, standardized processes, issue tracking, and change management
• Implement, optimize, and regularly test backup and recovery plans for databases, including Disaster Recovery
• Proactively identify issues, bottlenecks, gaps, or other areas of concern or opportunity and work to either directly affect change, or advocate for that change by working with peers and leadership to build consensus and take action
• Perform critical scheduled maintenance, deployment, and release support activities
• Participate in various POC's
• Participate in the creation of various KPI's that help development team optimize queries
• Provide off-hours support for critical production systems

What You'll Bring:

• 5 or more years MySQL Server Administration experience required
• 4 or more years implementing operational automation via scripting in the Linux Environment is required.
• 5 or more years successfully working in both Physical and Virtual environments are required
• 3 or more years working in high-transaction environments is required
• Strong experience working with and maintaining backup and recovery strategies
• Experience in working in public cloud environment like AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Experience with performance tuning and optimization, using native monitoring and troubleshooting tools and techniques, including complex queries as well as procedure and indexing strategies
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Adaptable team-player with a focus on results and value delivery
• Able to organize and plan work independently

We're Even More Excited If You Have:

• SQL Server is a plus
• NoSQL is a plus
• Experience implementing operational automation using scripts (Bash/Python)

Thrive at BlackLine Because You Are Joining:

• A technology-based company with a sense of adventure and a vision for the future. Every door at BlackLine is open. Just bring your brains, your problem-solving skills, and be part of a winning team at the world's most trusted name in Finance Automation!
• A culture that is kind, open, and accepting. It's a place where people can embrace what makes them unique, and the mix of cultural backgrounds and varying interests cultivates diverse thought and perspectives.
• A culture where BlackLiner's continued growth and learning is empowered. BlackLine offers a wide variety of professional development seminars and inclusive affinity groups to celebrate and support our diversity.

BlackLine is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, age, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, ancestry, color, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, medical condition, genetic information, or any other protected class or category recognized by applicable equal employment opportunity or other similar laws.
BlackLine recognizes that the ways we work and the workplace itself has shifted. We innovate in a workplace that optimizes a combination of virtual and in-person interactions to maximize collaboration and nurture our culture. Candidates who live within a reasonable commute to one of our offices will work in the office at least 2 days a week.