The Voleon Group

Database Administrator (DBA)

Reposted 3 Days Ago

2 Locations

In-Office or Remote

155K-195K Annually

Mid level

Financial Services

The Role

Manage and support database systems, ensuring operations, backups, performance, and automation for production and development environments. Collaborate with infrastructure teams to optimize performance.

Summary Generated by Built In

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.

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

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

Preferred Qualifications

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

Compensation

The base salary range for this position is $155,000 to $195,000 in the location(s) of this posting. Individual salaries are determined through a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography. Base salary does not include other forms of total compensation such as bonus compensation and other benefits. Our benefits package includes medical, dental and vision coverage, life and AD&D insurance, 20 days of paid time off, 9 sick days, and a 401(k) plan with a company match.

“Friends of Voleon” Candidate Referral Program

If you have a great candidate in mind for this role and would like to have the potential to earn $7,500 if your referred candidate is successfully hired and employed by The Voleon Group, please use this form to submit your referral. For more details regarding eligibility, terms and conditions please make sure to review the Voleon Referral Bonus Program.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The Voleon Group is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.

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Top Skills

Ansible

Aws Rds

Azure Database

Bash

Docker

Gcp Cloud Sql

Java

Kubernetes

Linux

MySQL

Oracle

Podman

Postgres

Python

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The Company

HQ: Berkeley, CA

169 Employees

Year Founded: 2007

What We Do

Founded in 2007 by two machine learning scientists, The Voleon Group is a quantitative hedge fund headquartered in Berkeley, CA. We are committed to solving large-scale financial prediction problems with statistical machine learning.

The Voleon Group combines an academic research culture with an emphasis on scalable architectures to deliver technology at the forefront of investment management. Many of our employees hold doctorates in statistics, computer science, and mathematics, among other quantitative disciplines.

Voleon's CEO holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford and previously founded and led a successful technology startup. Our Chief Investment Officer and Head of Research is Statistics faculty at UC Berkeley, where he earned his Ph.D. Voleon prides itself on cultivating an office environment that fosters creativity, collaboration, and open thinking. We are committed to excellence in all aspects of our research and operations, while maintaining a culture of intellectual curiosity and flexibility.

The Voleon Group is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.