Dag Allemaal,

Nimbuzz is op zoek naar een full-time MySQL DBA.

Kees Jan


Introduction

Think about it… being part of one of the top emerging companies in Europe that will change the face of mobile communication, working with enthusiastic people and having excellent career opportunities. Nimbuzz is currently recruiting the best of the best.
If you are passionate about interaction design and are highly motivated to make a difference, then drop us a quick note with your resume attached.



What is Nimbuzz?
Nimbuzz is a new-generation mobile service, designed for the online age, making you more mobile. The multi award-winning Nimbuzz application enables people to enjoy free & low cost mobile calls, free instant messaging, social networking and other rich communication features, using the internet capabilities of the their mobile device.

At the heart of Nimbuzz is the live Contact list – an always-on, hyper-connected, dynamic address book, enhanced with “real-time-presence” showing at a glance who’s online, offline, busy or away, their status messages, avatar pictures and social community activity. From here, users launch free and cheap calls between each other, IM chat sessions, picture sending, chat-room sessions, location based services and various other communication & interactive features.

Nimbuzz users enjoy the freedom of communicating with friends between any internet enabled device, from mobile to mobile, mobile to PC/Mac and vice versa, harnessing the power of the Internet (Wi-Fi, 3G, 2G, GPRS)
With its mobile, Web, Wap and desktop clients, Nimbuzz is available on thousands of the worlds’ most popular devices across all major platforms – Symbian, iPhone, iPod touch, Windows Mobile, Android, BlackBerry, J2ME, as well as Windows and Mac desktop computers.

Social networks & communities supported by Nimbuzz include Skype®, Facebook®, Windows Live Messenger (MSN®), GoogleTalkTM, Twitter, Yahoo!TM, AIM®, MySpace, ICQ®, GaduGadu, Hyves, StudiVZ, Giovani and others.

Position: 
Senior MySQL DBA

Job Purpose:

Design, architecture and development of our Database.

Capacity learning, optimization and performance tuning.

Building automatic tools and script for maintenance and management.

Job

Dimension:

Working as part of the Server Group.


Experience:

- At least 5+ years of experience as DBA
- At least 3+ years of experience as a MySQL DBA

- BSc Computer Sciences or equivalent degree.
- Unix/Linux Experience - a must.

Core Competencies:

Problem solver

“Can Do” approach

Motivated

Hard worker

Excellent communication skills

Fluent English.



Technical Competencies:

Shell and database scripting skills

Proficient with database performance strategies
MySQL schema, processes and queries tuning

InnoDB, NDB

MySQL Replication

Experience with telecom/ messaging Back-ends – bonus competence