Full-Time

MySQL Database Administrator

MySQL, Performance Tuning

Posted on 10/1/2025

Nielsen

Nielsen

10,001+ employees

Global audience measurement and data analytics

No salary listed

Pune, Maharashtra, India

In Person

Category
Data & Analytics (1)
Required Skills
MySQL
Requirements
  • 4+ years of professional experience on MySQL.
  • 4+ years of database performance tuning.
  • 4+ years of query optimization, including recommendations on indexes and schema design for application teams.
  • Experience with data security practices such as encryption, password rotation policies and setting user permissions.
  • Analytical thinking and attention to detail.
  • Teamwork.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills in English.
Responsibilities
  • Respond to on-call alerts in the event of production server failures.
  • Review and approve merge requests from Operational Team, applying run books and automation components.
  • Provide recommendations on query optimization to engineers from other teams.
  • Review current documentation and keep it in actual state.
  • Support existing automation, tune and fix when necessary.
  • Design and develop new automation components and features.
Desired Qualifications
  • Knowledge of one major programming language like Java, or Python.
  • ProxySQL or MySQL Router.
  • Percona Monitoring & Management (PMM) and other monitoring tools.
  • Percona Toolkit suite.
  • Cloud Services such as AWS and RDS, Azure, GCP.

Nielsen measures audience data for media across TV, digital, audio, and streaming, providing subscriptions to datasets and analytics for industry players. Its products include cross‑platform ratings, media planning, and marketing optimization insights drawn from a global data network. Gracenote is part of its offerings, expanding content identification and metadata services. Nielsen’s goal is to help customers understand how people consume media and use that information to optimize content, advertising, and business decisions.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

Debt Financing

Total Funding

$21.2B

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

1963

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Subscription model delivers stable recurring revenue from media clients.
  • Diverse Media Equity program with P&G boosts diverse supplier partnerships.
  • Private equity ownership by Evergreen and Brookfield since 2022 supports growth.

What critics are saying

  • NielsenIQ-Adsquare April 2026 partnership erodes TV ratings monopoly.
  • NIQ GeoPurchase segments fragment Nielsen's cross-platform measurement revenue.
  • Adsquare's 2026 NIQ pivot obsoletes Nielsen's 2020 OOH integrations.

What makes Nielsen unique

  • Nielsen pioneered market share concept in 1929 during Great Depression.
  • Nielsen ratings originated from 1936 Audimeter for radio audiences.
  • Gracenote division provides unique music and video metadata globally.

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