Hate the dirty recruitment tactics

I hate it when recruiters reach out to you with a message indicating that they are looking for 'key positions' and when you follow up, the tone changes to "we're just looking for engineers." This happens all the time and the latest company to play this recruitment tactic is LinkedIn. Guys, can't you decide whether you are looking to fill a 'key position' or just an engineering position before reaching out to candidates? I can see that mentioning 'key position' will get a candidate's attention but this is just a low level tactic.

Fotolog seeks MySQL DBA

Fotolog is seeking a MySQL DBA. You'll be working with me in a fast-paced, small-team-running-a-very-large-scale environment.

About Fotolog.com:
• 14th most trafficked site (Alexa)
• 3rd most active social network (ComScore)
• Parent company: Hi-Media (France)


Duties
• Work with Director of Database Infrastructure to maintain/improve and support a high traffic, fine-tuned, scalable and reliable database environment on a day-to-day basis.
• Pro-active and reactive performance analysis, monitoring, troubleshooting and resolution of issues.
• Optimize and tune contentions within the database environment
• Create logging environment(s) to log usage statistics about the environment
• Regularly monitor and periodically conduct random tests of restoration from backups generated within the environment
• Participate in large storage engine migrations
• Compile/patch/install MySQL
• Work closely with operations, development and product teams to ensure smooth deployment of new iterations and availability of database services.
• Create scripts for monitoring key server utilization indicators using DTrace/Perl etc.
• Migrate production systems from MySQL 4.x to 5.x

Ideal Candidates:
Note: (You’re encouraged to apply even if you are missing a few of these guidelines)
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent
• Minimum 3 years experience with Linux, Unix or Solaris
• Minimum 2 years of MySQL experience in production environment
• Experience with Partitioned architecture(s) and data shards
• Production experience with tuning and administering moderate-large scale mission critical MySQL/InnoDB environments.
• Experience with optimizing InnoDB for both OLTP and DW queries
• Experience with estimating database capacity planning
• Passion for hunting bottlenecks and optimizing IO operations
• Solid experience with both SQL and MySQL internals
• Experience with performance analysis tools for MySQL
• In-depth experience with storage engines
• Experience with backup methodologies for MySQL
• Document best practices and routine procedures
• In-depth knowledge of MySQL tuning parameters and performance strategies
• Experience with MySQL replication
• Excellent communication and problem solving skills with attention to detail without losing the big picture
• Must be a team player as well as able to tackle projects on your own upon assignment.
• Able to handle high stress situations without losing calm and focus.
• Comfortable with carrying a pager and participating in “on call” assignments with other members of the operations team and willing to provide 24/7 escalated on-call support.
• Experience with creating and deploying scripts to automate tasks wherever possible.
• Experience with benchmarking methodologies / tools / best practices
• Experience in supporting MySQL for production / development and QA environment(s).


Bonus
• Experience with storage arrays / 3Par
• Experience with master/master replication
• Experience with Hibernate
• Alumni of MySQL Conference
• Active MySQL community member or Planet MySQL blogger
• MySQL Proxy experience
• Experience with disaster recovery

Note
• You’ll be working at our office on 5th Ave., in New York City. We are just a block away from Union Square. Please note that telecommuting is not an option for this job.


Apply
• Only the candidates themselves should send their resume to fmashraqi at fotolog dot com.