Database Administrator (DBA)

The Voleon Group•Berkeley, NY

About The Position

Voleon is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art AI and machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. For nearly two decades, we have led our industry and worked at the frontier of applying AI/ML to investment management. 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. The people who shape our company come from other backgrounds, including concert music performances, humanitarian aid, opera singing, sports writing, and BMX racing. You will be part of a team that loves to succeed together. 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. Your Team We are seeking a skilled Database Administrator (DBA) to help manage and support our database systems as a core part of our infrastructure team. You will take ownership of the day-to-day operations, availability, backups and performance of production and development database environments, while also contributing to automation, tuning, and modernization efforts. This role involves working closely with systems infrastructure and storage components, and will require hands-on management of both software and the underlying hardware that supports the database environment. This is a hands-on role for someone with strong expertise in at least one major relational database (PostgreSQL), preferably with additional experience with one or more of (MySQL, Oracle or SQLserver) and a desire to grow into broader technical domains.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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

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