Database Administrator; DBA

Employer Industry: Technology in Finance

• Salary up to $195,000
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Generous paid time off policy with 20 days of vacation and 9 sick days
• Opportunity for career advancement and growth within a leading AI and machine learning organization
• Collaborative and enriching work environment with daily catered lunches
• Potential to earn $7,500 through the candidate referral program

• Administer, monitor, and maintain relational databases (Postgre
  
  SQL, MySQL, or Oracle) in production and development environments
• Perform routine database operations including 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
• Leverage basic Linux command-line knowledge to troubleshoot and improve database processes

• Strong hands‑on experience with at least one of Postgre
  
  SQL, MySQL, or Oracle (Postgre
  
  SQL 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 file system layout and OS‑level tools
• Experience with configuration management (Ansible) and other automation/deployment tools

• 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 installations/configuration

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