FP Markets Group of Companies is a well-established multi-regulated broker, founded in Australia, offering traders access to CFD trading on Forex, Indices, Commodities, Stocks and Cryptocurrencies. We are growing and looking to recruit a Full-time Database Administrator (DBA) in Cyprus office - a certified Great Place to Work®.
We're looking for a Database Administrator to own the health, performance, and reliability of our database fleet on AWS. You'll work across MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MS SQL Server — running production workloads on RDS — and partner with engineering teams on schema design, query performance, and operational excellence.
What You'll Work With: AWS RDS / Aurora · MySQL · PostgreSQL · MS SQL Server · Terraform · Prometheus · Grafana · Python · ClickHouse
Reporting to: Head of Security and Infrastructure
Responsibilities:
- Administer production databases on AWS RDS — MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server
- Design and maintain HA / DR architectures: replication, Multi-AZ, read replicas, failover, backups
- Tune performance — query optimization, indexing, execution plans, parameter groups
- Capacity planning, sizing, and cost optimization across the database fleet
- Manage schema changes and migrations safely in production
- Monitor database health with Prometheus / Grafana / CloudWatch; tune alerting
- Lead incident response for database outages, performance issues, and data integrity events
- Implement and enforce security controls — encryption, access management, auditing, secrets rotation
- Partner with developers on data modeling, query reviews, and access patterns
- Automate routine work — backups, patching, provisioning — using IaC
- Document standards, runbooks, and recovery procedures
- Participate in on-call rotation
Candidate profile:
- 4+ years as a DBA or database-focused engineer in production environments
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS RDS (and ideally Aurora)
- Deep expertise in at least two of: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server
- Advanced SQL — query tuning, execution plans, stored procedures, window functions
- Solid understanding of replication, backups, point-in-time recovery, and HA / DR patterns
- Experience with database security — IAM, encryption (KMS), TLS, auditing
- Schema design and migration experience in high-availability environments
- Experience with ClickHouse
- Scripting in Python, Bash, or PowerShell for automation
- Linux fundamentals and networking basics
Nice to Have:
- IaC for databases — Terraform, CloudFormation
- Schema migration tooling — Flyway, Liquibase, Alembic
- NoSQL exposure — DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis, ElastiCache
- Data warehousing — Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery
- Experience with CDC tooling — Debezium, AWS DMS
- Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Percona Toolkit, pgBadger)
- Experience in regulated environments (fintech, financial services, SOC 2, ISO 27001, DORA)
- Certifications — AWS Database Specialty, Microsoft, Oracle, PostgreSQL
Our offer:
- A certified Great Place to Work® reflecting our commitment to a positive culture, employee well-being, and support
- Welcoming, young and multicultural team with approachable leadership
- Ability to contribute to dynamic business at a growth phase
- High level of autonomy, support of ideas and putting your expertise into the best practices for the company
- Continuous personal development, training budget, growth with the company and opportunity to learn from industry leaders
- Competitive remuneration, regular salary reviews and performance-based incentive schemes
- Vibrant company life: from team activities to global celebrations
- New beautiful office in an easily accessible location with company-provided fruits, breakfasts and lunches
- Free access to multiple sports and wellness facilities across the country
- Free company-provided parking
- Medical insurance and pension fund after probation period
- A gift and a day off on your Birthday
- Visa and work permit support if required
Journey to FP Markets:
- Interview with People Function member (30 - 45 min) to assess match to our culture
- Interview with your future manager (45 min - 1 hour) to assess match to the job and the team and discuss role expectations
Join our team and be a part of a professional, rapidly-growing company operating in a multicultural environment!
Skills Required
- 4+ years as a DBA or database-focused engineer
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS RDS
- Deep expertise in MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MS SQL Server
- Advanced SQL skills
- Solid understanding of replication, backups, point-in-time recovery, HA / DR
- Schema design and migration in high-availability environments
- Scripting in Python, Bash, or PowerShell for automation
- Linux fundamentals and networking basics
What We Do
FP Markets is an online Forex and CFD provider which was founded in Australia in 2005. We offer traders access to CFDs across Forex, Indices, Commodities, Stocks, Bond, ETFs & Digital Currencies on consistently tighter spreads in unparalleled trading conditions. FP Markets is a multi-regulated broker and holder of ASIC, CySEC, FSA, FSCA, FSC licenses. Please refer to www.fpmarkets.com for more information about our group entities. This information is not intended for distribution to/use by any person in any country where such distribution/use would be contrary to local laws.
