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The Voleon Group ยท 11 hours ago

Database Administrator (DBA)

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
seniorityMid Level
money$155K/yr - $195K/yr

The Voleon Group is a technology company that leverages AI and machine learning for investment management. They are seeking a skilled Database Administrator (DBA) to manage and support their database systems, ensuring operations, availability, and performance while contributing to automation and modernization efforts.

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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

Qualification

PostgreSQLMySQLOraclePerformance tuningLinux systemsConfiguration managementCloud configurationAutomation toolsMonitoringBASHJavaPython

Required

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

Preferred

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

Medical, dental and vision coverage
Life and AD&D insurance
20 days of paid time off
9 sick days
401(k) plan with a company match

Company

The Voleon Group

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The Voleon Group is a family of companies committed to the development & deployment of cutting-edge technologies in investment management.
dateFounded in 2008
location
Berkeley, California, USA
people-size201-500 employees
web-link
http://voleon.com/

H1B Sponsorship

The Voleon Group has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2025 (2)
2024 (2)
2023 (3)
2022 (4)
2021 (1)
2020 (1)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage

Leadership Team

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Jon McAuliffe
Chief Investment Officer and Co-founder
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Prem Gopalan
Chief Technology Officer
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