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 real-time. You will load large datasets, design and maintain schemas, and help to optimize queries to help maintain our 99.99% uptime across a multi-terabyte 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 cost-effective manner.
You will be managing vast amounts of data. Your main responsibility will be applying the best practices to ensure that the organization's 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 and troubleshooting any 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 Union's legal working status is required.
Responsibilities:
Evaluating new database 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.
On-call 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 non-relational (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 dozens of services from AWS.
What's 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. RavenPack's 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.
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