About
LeverX is a global SAP Gold Partner with 20 years of experience delivering international projects for clients across multiple industries. It provides startup products, enterprise solutions, and research and development initiatives, including projects combining SAP and web technologies.
Responsibilities
•Run and analyze MySQL upgrade compatibility checks, identify blockers, and prepare remediation plans
•Review database configurations, schemas, indexes, stored routines, replication setups, users, grants, and backup strategies
•Design and support migration approaches, including logical dump and restore, staged upgrades, replica-based migration, and blue-green cutovers
•Prepare migration runbooks, validation checklists, rollback plans, and production cutover procedures
•Support performance testing, query plan analysis, and post-migration tuning
•Collaborate with DevOps engineers to integrate monitoring, alerting, backup automation, and operational dashboards
•Work closely with DevOps, backend, ETL, and functional teams to design safe migration strategies, reduce production risks, improve observability, and build repeatable database operation practices
•Influence migration architecture, define database standards, improve monitoring and backup processes, and take technical ownership of database reliability in complex enterprise environments
Requirements
•At least 2 years of experience with MySQL, including major version upgrades and compatibility assessment
•Experience planning and executing production database migrations with rollback and validation strategies
•Solid knowledge of replication, backups, restore procedures, performance tuning, indexing, and query optimization
•Ability to analyze database schemas, stored procedures, triggers, views, users, grants, charsets, collations, and SQL modes
•Experience with Linux-based database environments, shell scripting, monitoring, and troubleshooting
•Understanding of high availability, downtime minimization, RPO/RTO, and production change management
•Good communication skills and ability to work with DevOps, backend engineers, functional consultants, and project stakeholders
•English B2+
Nice to have
•Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Loki, or similar observability tools
•Knowledge of PostgreSQL, MariaDB, or cloud-managed databases
•Familiarity with data migration, ETL, data validation, or reconciliation processes
Conditions
•Projects across healthcare, manufacturing, e-commerce, fintech, and other domains
•Projects include startup products, enterprise solutions, research and development initiatives, and work combining SAP with web technologies
•Global clients based in Europe and the US, including Fortune 500 companies
•Employment security, with reassignment to a new project if the current project ends
•Average employee tenure of over 4 years
•Market-based compensation and regular performance reviews
•Internal expert communities, courses, and perks supporting professional growth and well-being
