Database Administrator AWS
Database Administrator AWS
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Job Description
RavenPack is looking for a DBA to join our Development Team. We are offering you a transition from the traditional DBA to Cloud DBA.
Join RavenPack and help us manage knowledge extracted from hundreds of thousands of documents each day all in realtime. You will load large datasets design and maintain schemas and help to optimize queries to help maintain our 99.99% uptime across a multiterabyte system
As a DBA you will be reporting directly to the Database Manager and will work with an international team of developers skilled in SQL Python Java Common Lisp and Cloud technologies to ensure that all goals are accomplished in a costeffective manner.
You will be managing vast amounts of data. Your main responsibility will be applying the best practices to ensure that the organizations databases are operational reliable easily accessible scalable and secure. You will research design and implement different technologies and processes to achieve that purpose. You will make the data consistent by creating data backups. You will also be troubleshooting the issues that might appear.
The ability to communicate effectively in English both in writing and verbally is a must. Knowledge of Spanish is not a business requirement. European Unions legal working status is required.
Responsibilities
- Evaluating new databases technologies: RavenPack is constantly looking for new technologies that allow us to offer a better service. Learning new database technologies and working to integrate them into our system will be one of your responsibilities.
- Analyzing the challenge of loading and maintaining large datasets: from choosing the best technology and database designing the perfect schema to work with the application level to maintain the sanity of the data.
- Administrating configuring and analyzing queries for improvements with Oracle.
- Creating and managing data backups.
- Oncall rotation shifts will be one of your responsibilities.
Requirements
- 2 years of experience working as a Linux DBA with large amounts of data in the cloud or equivalent experience.
- Excellent skills as a DBA including ETL (extract transform and load) backup and restore.
- You must know when to apply relational OLTP (MySQL Oracle Postgres etc.) OLAP (RedShift Presto Snowflake) or nonrelational (MongoDB DynamoDB) database technologies.
- Oracle experience administrating configuring and analyzing queries for improvements.
Desirable
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform will be strongly considered
- Scripting skills in Bash Python or similar will also be recognized for this position.
- Professional experience as Linux Sys Admin.
- Demonstrable knowledge of network design and troubleshooting.
- Technologies such as ElasticSearch Hadoop Hive Pig Spark.
Candidates without Cloud experience are welcome as long as they are willing to learn it. We are using dozen of services from AWS.
Whats in it for you
- You will work with the latest technologies.
- Our Headquarters is located in Marbella. Following the onboarding period we offer a hybrid work model allowing for up to 2 days remote per week.
- Free Company shuttle bus from Malaga Fuengirola Riviera and Estepona.
- You will have ownership of projects working in a collaborative environment where we will value your contribution.
- You will work in an agile environment able to react quickly to changes with a fairly flat hierarchy.
- As we encourage continuous learning we will support your ongoing training.
- Diversity is in our DNA! You will work in an international environment (over 29 nationalities and 24 languages spoken!)
About us
RavenPack is the leading Big Data analytics provider for financial services. Financial professionals rely on RavenPack for its speed and accuracy in analyzing large amounts of unstructured content. RavenPacks products allow clients to enhance returns reduce risk and increase efficiency by systematically incorporating the effects of public information in their models or workflows. Our clients include the most successful hedge funds banks and asset managers in the world.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion colour national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status.
Employment Type
Full Time
