Devexperts

Middle Oracle & Postgres Database Administrator

Devexperts  •  Porto, PT (Remote)  •  4 days ago
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Job Description

Devexperts works with respected financial institutions, delivering products and tailor-made solutions for retail and brokerage houses, exchanges, and buy-side firms. The company focuses on trading platforms and brokerage automation, complex software development projects, market data products, and IT consulting services.

We expect the Database Administrator to:

  • Manage, monitor, and optimise Oracle and Postgres database systems, ensuring high performance, availability, and security,
  • Design and implement Oracle and Postgres database structures based on business requirements,
  • Identify and resolve performance issues, optimise queries, and proactively monitor database performance,
  • Develop and implement backup and recovery strategies to ensure data protection and disaster recovery capabilities,
  • Implement and maintain database security measures to safeguard sensitive data,
  • Investigate and resolve database-related issues, provide technical support to users, and collaborate with developers and other IT staff,
  • Create and maintain comprehensive database documentation, including configurations, processes, and procedures,
  • Plan and execute database upgrades and apply patches to ensure the latest features, security enhancements, and bug fixes.

Qualifications

Must-have skills:

  • At least 4 years of IT experience and least 2 years in a similar role,
  • Installation and administration of Oracle Database 19c and Postgres 13 and forward,
  • High availability environments (Failover or RAC),
  • Disaster Recovery Environments (Data Guard),
  • Backup and restore using RMAN,
  • Hands-on experience with table spaces, indexes, partitions, and query performance tuning,
  • Creation, migration, maintenance and administration of Oracle and PostgreSQL databases in different environments (Production, Pre-Production),
  • Experience with Oracle Enterprise Manager,
  • Docker Management,
  • Experience with Liquidbase,
  • Experience in tasks automation,
  • Advanced knowledge of information technology necessary for performing work duties (including database skills at the administrator level, having domain of Unix and Windows environments at the user level, networking knowledge).

Nice-to-have skills:

  • Experience with Foglight,
  • Experience with Ansible (AWX),
  • Knowledge of Java programming language,
  • Experience with trading/exchange/risk management software usage,
  • Experience with Atlassian software (JIRA, Confluence, FishEye, etc.).

Additional Information

Care for the employees is one of Devexperts' core values. For the suggested position, we offer a benefits package that will guarantee the comfort of our new teammate.

Work Regime Flexibility benefits:

  • Possibility of hybrid work mode,
  • Flexible working hours.

Health and recreation benefits:

  • Fully paid additional wellness days (3 unwell days per year),
  • Medical insurance for the employees and children,
  • Reimbursement of fitness / Urban Sports Club Membership,
  • Meal allowance (Coverflex Card),
  • Flexpay system (Coverflex).

Facility benefits:

  • Modern office with new equipment,
  • PlayStation, table football, and musical instruments in the office,
  • Parking spaces,
  • Free drinks and snacks.

Community benefits:

  • Teambuilding activities,
  • Corporate parties,
  • Football Club,
  • Music club,
  • Speakers' club,
  • Free admission to corporate external events,
  • Possibility of joining conferences and professional fairs,
  • Personal branding development support.

Professional training benefits:

  • Local language courses for foreign employees,
  • Unlimited access to self-learning platforms,
  • Certification opportunities,
  • Mentorship Program.

Social benefits:

  • Parental bonus,
  • Pension plan (Coverflex),
  • Referral bonus,
  • Blood donation paid leave.
Devexperts

About Devexperts

Devexperts was founded in 2002 and specializes in the development of highly complex software solutions and services for the Capital Markets industry.

We develop financial software solutions for retail and institutional brokerages, wealth-management firms, investment funds, exchanges, and insurance companies.

Devexperts market expertise ranges from Equities to Options, to FX and Commodities in geographical locations as diverse as Chicago, New York, London, Tokyo, Istanbul, and Shanghai.

The Devexperts development team of 800 engineers is recognized as one of the best in the world. Since 2002, we have received more than 30 of the global software and financial industry's most prestigious awards.

In order to achieve competitive effectiveness, our project teams adhere to classic software development methodologies and employ elements of Agile software development, such as Scrum, Kanban, eXtreme Programming, Continuous Integration, and Test-Driven Development.

The high performance, scalability and integration capabilities of our products and services, along with 24x7x365 monitoring and support, result in some of the global financial industry’s most recognized and reliable technology applications (for leading US brokerage companies).

Devexperts has 3 key business areas:

• Trading platforms and brokerage automation

• Complex software development projects

• Market data products

Devexperts also provides consulting services for financial institutions in the fields of:

• Real-time transaction processing

• Trading automation

• Risk management

• Highly complex, enterprise-wide trading platform applications.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
Dublin, IE
Year Founded
2002
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