Senior Cloud DBA

Would you like to relocate to sunny Marbella/ Spain

Our client is at the forefront of developing the next generation of generative AI tools for the finance industry and beyond. With 20 years of experience as a leading big data analytics provider for financial services we empower our clientsincluding some of the worlds most successful hedge funds banks and asset managersto enhance returns reduce risk and increase efficiency by integrating public information into their models and workflows. Building on this expertise we are now launching a new suite of GenAI and SaaS services designed specifically for financial professionals.

Recognized as the Best Alternative Data Provider by WatersTechnology and has been included in this years Top 100 Next Unicorns by Viva Technology. Were now preparing to launch a nextgeneration platform aimed at transforming financial decisionmaking.

Tasks

As a Cloud 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.

As a Cloud DBA 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.

• 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.
• Administrating configuring and analyzing queries for improvements with Postgres or Oracle
• 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.
• Helping to optimize queries.
• 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.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform will be strongly considered.
• 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.
• Relocating to Marbella/ Malaga. Hybrid work from the office (M/W/F)
• Valid EU citizenship

Desirable

• Scripting skills in Bash Python or similar will also be recognized for this position.
• Postgres experience administrating configuring and analyzing queries for improvements.
• Professional experience as Linux Sys Admin.
• Demonstrable knowledge of network design and troubleshooting.
• Technologies such as Hadoop Hive Pig Spark.

Benefits

• International Culture: With its headquarters in Marbella Spain and presence in New York and London our client takes pride in being a truly diverse global organization.
• Competitive Salary: we believe that your time and experience needs to be fairly rewarded.
• Continuous learning: We provide the support needed to grow within the team.
• Innovation: Innovation is the key to our success so we encourage you to speak up and tell us about your vision.
• Hybrid work arrangement.
• Shuttle bus: From Malaga Fuengirola La Riviera and Estepona is available for free from the company.
• Diversity is in our DNA! You will work in an international environment (over 29 nationalities and 24 languages spoken!)

Sponsorship or visa renewals are not supported at this time.

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.