The Voleon Group

The Voleon Group

Database Administrator (DBA)

Remote, United States

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 96 days ago
PythonJavaBashSQLPostgreSQLMySQLAWSGCPAzureDockerKubernetesAnsibleLinuxMachine LearningIncident ResponseResearch

About the role

  • Voleon is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art AI and machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance.
  • We have become a multibillion-dollar asset manager, and we have ambitious goals for the future.
  • Your colleagues will include internationally recognized experts in artificial intelligence and machine learning research as well as highly experienced finance and technology professionals.

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

Requirements

  • 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
  • At minimum, basic experience with performance tuning

Nice to have

  • 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
  • "FRIENDS OF VOLEON" CANDIDATE REFERRAL PROGRAM

Compensation

  • In addition to our enriching and collegial working environment, we offer highly competitive compensation and benefits packages, technology talks by our experts, a beautiful modern office, daily catered lunches, and more.

Equal opportunity

  • The Voleon Group is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.
  • The Voleon Group is an Equal Opportunity employer.
  • Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • ational origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law

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