Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Voleon is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art AI and machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. They are seeking a skilled Database Administrator (DBA) to manage and support their database systems, ensuring day-to-day operations, availability, backups, and performance of production and development environments.

Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, and maintain relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle) in production and development environments
• Perform routine DB 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
• Automation, configuration management, modernization
• Monitoring and analysis
• Work collaboratively with systems and infrastructure teams to understand storage, OS, and networking components that influence database performance and reliability
• Leverage basic Linux command-line and systems knowledge to troubleshoot and improve DB processes

Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with at least one of PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle (PostgreSQL strongly preferred)
• Solid grasp of daily DBA operational tasks, including backups, replication, security, user management, and logging
• At minimum, basic experience with performance tuning; medium level strongly preferred
• Basic knowledge of Linux systems, including filesystem layout, memory/disk utilization, and OS-level tools
• Experience with configuration management (Ansible) and other automation/deployment tools
• Experience with both On-Prem and Cloud configuration
• Experience with database specific Monitoring
• 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
• Linux networking fundamentals (troubleshooting connections, ports, interfaces)
• Experience with cloud-based DB offerings (e.g., AWS RDS, Azure Database, GCP Cloud SQL)
• Familiarity with application development or scripting in BASH, Java or Python, particularly for automating databases install/configuration
• Experience with general Monitoring and Alerting

Benefits

• Highly competitive compensation and benefits packages
• Technology talks by our experts
• A beautiful modern office
• Daily catered lunches

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