Database Administrator

CURRENCY EXCHANGE INTERNATIONAL•Orlando, FL

1h•Hybrid

About The Position

Currency Exchange International (CXI) is a Financial Services and Technology Provider based in Orlando, Florida. CXI provides a wide range of foreign exchange services to customers in the United States. CXI’s primary business channels to service customers are through its company-owned branch locations and foreign exchange partnerships with financial institutions and corporations. CXI has been providing global payment solutions for clients that span wide-ranging industries. As one of North America's leading foreign exchange wholesalers, CXI can provide personalized and efficient service, competitive rates, as well as a number of settlement options. The Database Administrator (DBA) owns the reliability, performance, security, and recoverability of our database platforms, while also supporting data integration and pipeline operations across the organization. This role is responsible for bridging traditional database administration with modern data integration practices, ensuring that data flows between systems are secure, reliable, and auditable.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or acceptable combination of equivalent.
Minimum of 3 years of experience as a DBA or similar role
Strong database experience (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or MySQL)
Expertise in backup/restore and disaster recovery
Strong performance tuning and troubleshooting skills
Experience with ETL/ELT or data integration pipelines
Strong SQL and data modeling skills
Scripting experience (PowerShell, Python, or Bash)
Strong documentation and operational discipline

Nice To Haves

Experience with Apache NiFi or similar data orchestration tools
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS RDS, Azure SQL)
Familiarity with APIs, messaging systems, or streaming platforms
Experience in regulated/financial environments

Responsibilities

Manage production and non-production databases (availability, performance, patching, upgrades)
Establish and maintain operational standards, runbooks, and documentation
Ensure system stability and uptime for critical business systems
Partner with application, cloud infrastructure, and security teams to support complex, high availability systems and application releases
Ability to provide after hours support for planned and unplanned maintenance
Ensure backups are reliable and meet retention requirements
Perform and document regular restore testing
Maintain and improve HA/DR solutions (replication, failover, clustering)
Support DR exercises and maintain recovery procedures
Monitor database performance and proactively resolve issues
Tune queries, indexing strategies, and schema design
Implement observability and alerting strategies to proactively identify performance issues.
Partner with engineering teams on release performance and scaling
Design, implement, and support data integration workflows across systems
Build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines for ingestion and transformation
Administer and support Apache NiFi (preferred) or similar tools
Ensure pipelines are monitored, secure, reliable, and auditable
Troubleshoot pipeline failures and optimize throughput and latency
Implement least-privilege access controls and audit logging
Manage service accounts, secrets, and credential rotation
Support audit evidence requirements (SOC, SOX, PCI, regulatory)
Ensure adherence to data security and governance standards
Automate routine DBA and pipeline tasks
Improve reliability and reduce manual operations
Contribute to documentation, runbooks, and operational playbooks.
Support modernization efforts (cloud, observability, automation)