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U.S. Financial Technology · 21 hours ago

Database Administrator

U.S. Financial Technology is seeking an experienced Database Administrator to join their team. This role involves supporting cloud infrastructure and multi-RDBMS administration, including SQL Server and Oracle, while participating in on-call rotations and collaborating with various teams to ensure database availability and operational success.

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Responsibilities

Participate in day-to-day DBA operations performing tasks such as working on change tickets that involve executing SQL scripts in Production, resolving incident tickets related to database availability, backups, free disk space, long-running queries, etc
Participated in on-call rotation, attending to database related alerts and notifications in a timely manner and taking appropriate action to resolve the underlying issue(s)
In addition to performing the daily DBA tasks, contribute towards the success of the on-going projects related to automation, infrastructure-as-a-code, technology updates, containerization, etc
Assist development and QA teams with deployment activities by performing DBA tasks assigned in the runbook
Actively support operational teams and other stakeholder teams to provide business systems availability and maintain customer satisfaction
Support the production and lower environments infrastructure 24/7 as part of the production support team
Participate in on-call rotation as infrastructure support primary to support production

Qualification

SQL Server 2016Oracle 19cAmazon RDSDatabase performance tuningAWS Cloud InfrastructureBackupRecovery proceduresPowerShellPythonTroubleshooting skillsCI/CD methodologiesProfessional CertificationsCommunication skills

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS or related technical field required
Minimum 3 years related work experience managing SQL Server 2016 or newer, Amazon RDS and Oracle 19c or later versions of databases in AWS production environments
Applicants must be authorized to work in the US without requiring employer sponsorship currently or in the future
Proven experience in managing SQL Server 2016 or higher, Amazon RDS and Oracle 19c as a DBA, preferably including Production environment
Clear understanding of backup and recovery procedures for Oracle 19c using RMAN and SQL Server native backups
Understanding of basic database concepts, such as indexes and statistics, concurrency and blocking, transactions, data caching
Solid understanding of SQL Server tools such as SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Server Agent, SQL Server Configuration Manager
Experience with HA/DR strategies for SQL Server, including Always-On Availability Group
Knowledge of Linux and Windows operating systems and experience in supporting database servers on both
A working knowledge of AWS Cloud Infrastructure, including but not limited to Regions and AZs, EC2, EBS, NACL & Security Groups, CloudWatch, Event Bridge, etc
Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to collaborate well across functional teams
Ability to troubleshoot system issues, problems, identifying root causes and fixing them
Fair knowledge of computer hardware, software, and networking concepts and terminologies
Basic understanding of CI/CD methodologies
Must be willing to provide on call support on a rotation basis for 24x7 support

Preferred

Experience with database performance and tuning is highly desirable
Experience with Oracle Grid Infrastructure (including ASM) and Oracle Data Guard is highly desirable
Experience in scripting/deployment languages such as PowerShell, Python preferred
Professional Certifications in AWS, Azure and Database technologies is a plus

Benefits

Performance bonus
401k match
Healthcare coverage
PTO
Broad range of other benefits

Company

U.S. Financial Technology

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Current Stage
Growth Stage

Leadership Team

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Farhad Fariba
Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
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Brian McQuaid
Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer
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