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.