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In celebration of the company’s 14 year anniversary, Pythian today announced a donation of $30K worth of scholarships to support students in the MIS Program at the University of Ottawa’s Telfer School of Management.

The scholarship will support four Honours Bachelor of Commerce students specializing in Management Information Services (MIS) each year by providing them with a $2,500 scholarship and a paid internship.

Since opening its doors in 1997, Pythian has grown from an ambitious local startup into one of the world’s most respected database services companies. Founder Paul Vallée and team members Marc Fielding, Sylvain Fontaine, and Greg Leger are alumni of the MIS program.
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MySQL Conference 2011, Santa Clara, CA – April 10-14, 2011

Don’t forget, we’re hiring stellar MySQL DBA’s. If this is you, stop by a session above and introduce yourself to Gwen or Danil. They’ll tell you firsthand what it’s like to work at Pythian. Register on our career center for job details, or to receive our newest postings.

We’re looking for an intermediate to expert MySQL DBA who can jump right in. We have several offices in Ottawa, Boston, Sydney and Hyderabad, India.

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For very personal reasons that don’t belong in this article, I decided a few weeks ago that it’s time for me to move on. The year and a half that I worked for Pythian have been a wonderful experience, and this is article is my tribute to this great company.

The MySQL Team

Being able to work side by side with two MySQL experts like Sheeri Cabral and Augusto Bott has been a great experience. I have learned a lot, not only about MySQL, but also about what a great DBA should be like. Both of them are recognized MySQL Community members and regular speakers at the MySQL Users Conference and other events. Sheeri has been named MySQL Community Member of the Year twice in a row. Both are a guarantee of excellent service.

My Predictions For Pythian

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Folks, we are looking to bring a Senior System Administrator on board in our Sydney office. If you are interested or know somebody who would qualify, please contact Pythian HR. Remember that we are not hiring by the years of experience but by the skills, dedication and passion.
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Hello everyone,

We have several MySQL DBA openings, one in each of our offices in Ottawa, Boston, or Hyderabad, India. (Our Sydney office is doin’ fine.)

Working at Pythian is different than working in-house or as a consultant, because you’ll be making your contributions available to each of the customers assigned to your team, allowing you to see more use cases, more technologies, and work with more and varied environments, all the while building interesting and long-lasting working relationships with your peers. I will gladly sponsor a work visa for the right candidate anywhere in the world.

We support some of the most interesting internet-scale MySQL environments in the world, including major environments for Fox Interactive Media, Videoegg.com, Electronic Arts, and Renkoo.com.

Top Criteria

• Outstanding MySQL production administration and server tuning skills, bonus points for cluster, partitioning, and major implementation and upgrades experience
• Exceptional troubleshooting, problem-solving and learning skills
• Superior productivity per hour and overall getting-the-job-done-right abilities
• Fluent communication skills in English, both written and oral, are mandatory. Second or third languages are also a plus (we have customers all over the world and are always eager to add a language to our repertoire)
• Stored procedure, trigger, view and nonstandard storage engine experience a plus (such as SoliddDB, the Amazon S3 engine, Falcon, etc.)
• Interest or experience in publications, blogging, and presentations a plus

Job Highlights

• Work on an elite team of DBAs for an elite and growing group of customers; you’ll learn more here in a year than in any in-house DBA job no matter how long you stay; I personally guarantee it.
• Work and gain valuable experience on every mainstream platform, including AIX, HP/UX, Solaris, Linux, Tru64, Windows, etc. We many not run MySQL on all of those platforms, but we certainly run enterprise infrastructure on one team or another on each of those and more. If you’re interested in technology, there a lot of it in use here and that makes it a great place to be.
• Learn and support every mainstream technology and feature, including cluster, advanced replication, GIS, etc. etc.
• Work across multiple industries including health care, manufacturing, media, dot-com, education, retail, services, and many more.
• Work in a company that values hard work, not long work.
• Work in a company that allows you to research and write articles, presentations and blog posts on company time, and pays for you to present your research at just about any user conference worldwide.
• There is also the obvious opportunity to learn Oracle and SQL Server, if you don’t already know those platforms. We here at Pythian are about the data, first and foremost. So keep your platform advocacy for the conferences, mmmkay? We love ‘em all ’round these parts.
• Consult for high-profile customers all around the world without leaving the office. This is really the most awesome part; almost any other job on the planet that remotely lets you see this much tech has you traveling like mad. Not us.

To Apply

Send us an email with a one-paragraph introduction of who you are and why you are exceptional at hr@pythian.com. Feel free to attach your résumé in any format — text, Word, PDF, RTF, ODT, whatever makes you happy.

Hot on the heels of my publishing our Applications DBA opening in Ottawa, Canada earlier this week, we now have an apps DBA opening in our office in Hyderabad as well.

Needless to say, we are seeing rapid uptake of our outsourced E-Business Suite 11i management services.

I have a senior Oracle Applications DBA opening at Pythian’s office in Hyderabad, India. This opening pays on an international payscale, meaning that I am ideally looking for an elite candidate working for a compensation plan in the 25-35 lacs range TCE. Remember, Pythian is not in India to save money on payroll, Pythian is in India to staff an elite workforce in that timezone. Feel free to apply if you aren’t at the 25+ lacs pa range yet in your career and let us decide.

The candidate I am looking for is delighted and excited with the apps dba workload and does not have aspirations to managing a big team. If you are my ideal candidate, you are the kind of person who thinks implementing Apps on RAC is exciting, or moving a large company’s Apps from Solaris to Linux would be super fun, or even just doing a massive 12i upgrade or installation sounds just dreamy. You will actually be doing these things. You will not have a team of 5-7 people doing them for you.

Working at Pythian is different than working in-house or as a consultant, because you’ll be making your contributions available to each of the customers assigned to your team, allowing you to see more use cases, more technologies, and work with more and varied environments, all the while building interesting and long-lasting working relationships with your peers.

The Hyderabad office is ideally situated in the Somajiguda district of Hyderabad, pretty much right downtown, or as downtown as downtown can be in a city that has a lake smack dab in the middle of it.

We support some of the most interesting and mission-critical Oracle Applications environments in the world, including one that is FDA-regulated in support of a global biosciences company. Meaning lives are at stake. It doesn’t get any more mission-critical, or more personally rewarding, than that.

Top criteria:

• Outstanding Oracle Apps DBA on UNIX skills, bonus points for Apps RAC and major implementation and upgrades experience
• Exceptional troubleshooting, problem-solving and learning skills
• Superior productivity per hour and overall getting-the-job-done-right abilities
• Fluent communication skills in English, both written and oral, are mandatory. Second or third languages are also a huge benefit (we have customers all over the world and are always eager to add a language to our repertoire)
• Core DBA skills are a prerequisite for Apps DBA at this level, but you know that already
• Publications, blogging and presentations experience and interest a plus
• Experience with Oracle Applications Server and Portal a plus
• SAP, Peoplesoft and other ERP experience a plus

Job highlights:

• Work in an elite team of Apps DBAs for an elite group and growing of customers; you’ll learn more here in a year than in any in-house DBA job no matter how long you stay; I personally guarantee it.
• Work and gain valuable experience on every mainstream platform, including AIX, HP/UX, Solaris, Linux, Tru64, Windows, etc.
• Support every mainstream database technology and feature, including Oracle RAC, advanced queuing, advanced replication, every flavour of dataguard, RMAN, streams, etc. etc.
• Work across multiple industries including health care, manufacturing, media, dot-com, education, retail, services, and many more.
• Work in a company that values hard work, not long work.
• Work in a company that will allow you to research and write articles, presentations and blog posts on company time, and pay for you to present your research at just about any user conference worldwide where it gets accepted.

Learn more about Pythian and see our customer list at http://www.pythian.com.

To apply:

Send me an email with a one-paragraph introduction of who you are and why you are exceptional to me at vallee@pythian.com. Feel free to attach your resume in any format (Word, PDF, RTF, ODT, whatever makes you happy.)

Hello everyone,

I have a senior Oracle Applications DBA opening here at Pythian’s headquarters in Ottawa. Working at Pythian is different than working in-house or as a consultant, because you’ll be making your contributions available to each of the customers assigned to your team, allowing you to see more use cases, more technologies, and work with more and varied environments, all the while building interesting and long-lasting working relationships with your peers.

I will gladly sponsor a work visa to come to Canada for the right candidate anywhere in the world.

We support some of the most interesting and mission-critical Oracle Applications environments in the world, including one that is FDA-regulated in support of a global biosciences company. Meaning lives are at stake. It doesn’t get any more mission-critical, or more personally rewarding, than that.

Top criteria:

• Outstanding Oracle Apps DBA on UNIX skills, bonus points for Apps RAC and major implementation and upgrades experience
• Exceptional troubleshooting, problem-solving and learning skills
• Superior productivity per hour and overall getting-the-job-done-right abilities
• Fluent communication skills in English, both written and oral, are mandatory. Second or third languages are also a huge benefit (we have customers all over the world and are always eager to add a language to our repertoire)
• Core DBA skills are a prerequisite for Apps DBA at this level, but you know that already
• Publications, blogging and presentations experience and interest a plus
• Experience with Oracle Applications Server and Portal a plus
• SAP, Peoplesoft and other ERP experience a plus

Job highlights:

• Work in an elite team of Apps DBAs for an elite group and growing of customers; you’ll learn more here in a year than in any in-house DBA job no matter how long you stay; I personally guarantee it.
• Work and gain valuable experience on every mainstream platform, including AIX, HP/UX, Solaris, Linux, Tru64, Windows, etc.
• Support every mainstream database technology and feature, including Oracle RAC, advanced queuing, advanced replication, every flavour of dataguard, RMAN, streams, etc. etc.
• Work across multiple industries including health care, manufacturing, media, dot-com, education, retail, services, and many more.
• Work in a company that values hard work, not long work.
• Work in a company that will allow you to research and write articles, presentations and blog posts on company time, and pay for you to present your research at just about any user conference worldwide where it gets accepted.

Learn more about Pythian and see our customer list at http://www.pythian.com.

To apply:

Send me an email with a one-paragraph introduction of who you are and why you are exceptional to me at vallee@pythian.com. Feel free to attach your resume in any format (Word, PDF, RTF, ODT, whatever makes you happy.)

More information about Ottawa:
Ottawa is a city of around 1,000,000 and is a great place to live.
Encyclopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa
Cost of living: http://www.finfacts.com/costofliving.htm
Quality of life:

http://www.finfacts.com/irelandbusinessnews/publish/article_1000846.shtml

http://www.canadaka.net/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=3052 (Globe & Mail article reprint)

Hello everyone,

I have an opening for a senior DBA here in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. I measure senior not by years of experience but rather by overall abilities, so please feel free to apply even if you don’t have years & years of experience.

We will happily sponsor a work visa for an exceptional candidate. Please forward this message to anyone you feel might have an interest, please feel free to re-post this message anywhere you feel is appropriate.

-> If one crosses my desk, I will consider either an elite MySQL DBA with little to no Oracle or SQL Server experience for this opening, or an elite Oracle DBA. Please note that this description is written assuming Oracle skills – if you’re a MySQL DBA please ‘s/Oracle/MySQL/g’ for me and spare me the trouble would ya?

Top criteria:
-> Outstanding Oracle DBA on UNIX skills, especially SQL, PL/SQL, tuning, modeling, config, etc.
-> Exceptional troubleshooting, problem-solving and learning skills
-> Superior productivity per hour and overall getting-the-job-done-right abilities
-> Fluent communication skills in English, both written and oral
-> Oracle DBA on platforms other than UNIX a plus, so long as the UNIX experience is there too
-> UNIX sysadmin experience a plus, RAC implementation experience a plus
-> Publications and presentations experience and interest a plus

-> RAC, Oracle Applications, SAP and Peoplesoft experience a plus
-> DBA experience on non-Oracle platforms a plus, expecially MySQL and SQL Server

Job highlights:
-> Work in an elite team of DBAs for an elite group and growing of customers – you’ll learn more here in a year than in any in-house DBA job no matter how long you stay; I personally guarantee it.
-> Work and gain valuable experience on every mainstream platform, including AIX, HP/UX, Solaris, Linux, Tru64, Windows, etc.
-> Support every mainstream database technology and feature, including Oracle RAC, advanced queuing, advanced replication, every flavour of dataguard, RMAN, streams, etc. etc.

-> Work across multiple industries including health care, manufacturing, media, dot-com, education, retail, services, and many more.
-> Work in a company that values hard work, not long work.
-> Work in a company that will allow you to research and write articles, presentations and blog posts on company time, and pay for you to present your research at any user conference in North America where it gets accepted.

Learn more about Pythian and see our customer list at http://www.pythian.com.

To apply:

Send an email with a one-paragraph introduction of who you are and why you are exceptional to me at pythianhr@gmail.com. In case you’re wondering, I use gmail for our HR inbox because of its superior labeling, sorting and searching features. Please attach your resume in Word or PDF format.

More information about Ottawa:
Ottawa is a city of around 1,000,000 and is a great place to live.
Encyclopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa
Cost of living: http://www.finfacts.com/costofliving.htm
Quality of life:

http://www.finfacts.com/irelandbusinessnews/publish/article_1000846.shtml

http://www.canadaka.net/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=3052 (Globe & Mail article reprint)