Senior Operations Engineer
TravelMuse is seeking a full-time Senior Operations Engineer to manage the company’s Travel content, administer MySQL databases and support live operations of our growing customer-facing web application revolutionizing how people get inspired, research, plan and experience leisure travel.
Responsibilities
- Alfresco Web CMS Administration (+ manage relationship with support)
- Support editors using CMS for data entry
- Manage weekly editorial content update process (through QA to production)
- Manage travel data feeds and develop scripts to aggregate and correlate content into our CMS
- Manage data model to ensure design flexibility and performance for the application
- Work with photo editors to select appropriate artwork for articles
- Work with software engineers to review schema/queries and ensure optimal design and performance
- MySQL database administration (manage relationship w/ DBA consultants as escalation point)
- Identify poor performing queries and tune SQL statements for MySQL
- Manage production operations and monitoring to ensure availability (through relationship with our hosting provider handling 1st-level escalations)
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience with MySQL
- Strong database concepts and fundamentals
- Experience developing and optimizing queries on MySQL databases
- Comfortable administering and scripting in UNIX environments
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with little supervision
- Self-starter with the ability to work under pressure and handle multiple simultaneous tasks
- B.S. degree in computer science or equivalent
Any of the following experience is a big plus
- Alfresco CMS administration
- Solaris system administration
- Jive Clearspace system administration
- Travel content management
- Support of live Java-based applications
Please e-mail your resume and a brief cover letter explaining why you feel you are ideally qualified for the Senior Operations Engineer position to: cyril@travelmuse.com with Senior Operations Engineer as the subject.