The Voleon Group
Database Administrator (DBA)
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Job Description
- Req#: cd305d9e-55f4-483c-b87e-069542393cfb
Employer Industry: Financial Technology Company
Why consider this job opportunity:
- Base salary range of $155,000 to $195,000
- Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Generous paid time off with 20 days of vacation and 9 sick days
- Opportunity for career advancement and growth within an innovative technology-focused environment
- Engaging work culture with daily catered lunches and technology talks by experts
- Chance to collaborate with internationally recognized experts in AI and machine learning
What to Expect (Job Responsibilities):
- Administer, monitor, and maintain relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle) in production and development environments
- Perform routine database operations such as backup and recovery, schema changes, patching, upgrades, and security hardening
- Support incident response, root cause analysis, and recovery for database-related issues
- Collaborate with systems and infrastructure teams to enhance database performance and reliability
- Utilize basic Linux command-line knowledge to troubleshoot and improve database processes
What is Required (Qualifications):
- Strong hands-on experience with at least one of PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle (PostgreSQL strongly preferred)
- Solid understanding of daily DBA operational tasks, including backups, replication, security, user management, and logging
- Basic experience with performance tuning; medium level strongly preferred
- Basic knowledge of Linux systems, including filesystem layout and OS-level tools
- Experience with configuration management (Ansible) and other automation/deployment tools
How to Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications):
- Exposure to containerized environments (Docker, Podman, Kubernetes) for running database workloads
- Familiarity with Ceph RBD as a backend for database storage or similar distributed storage systems
- Understanding of modern big data formats or engines like Hadoop, Parquet, RocksDB
- Experience with cloud-based database offerings (e.g., AWS RDS, Azure Database, GCP Cloud SQL)
- Familiarity with application development or scripting in BASH, Java, or Python for automating database installs/configurations
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The Voleon Group is a family of companies committed to the development and deployment of cutting-edge technologies in investment management.
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