Company Description
Devexperts works with respected financial institutions, delivering products and tailor-made solutions for retail and brokerage houses, exchanges, and buy-side firms. The company focuses on trading platforms and brokerage automation, complex software development projects, market data products, and IT consulting services.
Job Description
We expect the Database Administrator to:
- Manage, monitor, and optimise Oracle and Postgres database systems, ensuring high performance, availability, and security,
- Design and implement Oracle and Postgres database structures based on business requirements,
- Identify and resolve performance issues, optimise queries, and proactively monitor database performance,
- Develop and implement backup and recovery strategies to ensure data protection and disaster recovery capabilities,
- Implement and maintain database security measures to safeguard sensitive data,
- Investigate and resolve database-related issues, provide technical support to users, and collaborate with developers and other IT staff,
- Create and maintain comprehensive database documentation, including configurations, processes, and procedures,
- Plan and execute database upgrades and apply patches to ensure the latest features, security enhancements, and bug fixes.
Qualifications
Must-have skills:
- At least 2 years of experience in a similar role,
- Installation and administration of Oracle Database 19c and Postgres 13 and forward,
- High availability environments (Failover or RAC),
- Disaster Recovery Environments (Data Guard),
- Backup and restore using RMAN,
- Hands-on experience with table spaces, indexes, partitions, and query performance tuning,
- Creation, migration, maintenance and administration of Oracle and PostgreSQL databases in different environments (Production, Pre-Production),
- Experience with Oracle Enterprise Manager,
- Docker Management,
- Experience with Liquidbase,
- Experience in tasks automation,
- Advanced knowledge of information technology necessary for performing work duties (including database skills at the administrator level, having domain of Unix and Windows environments at the user level, networking knowledge).
Nice-to-have skills:
- Experience with Foglight,
- Experience with Ansible (AWX),
- Knowledge of Java programming language,
- Experience with trading/exchange/risk management software usage,
- Experience with Atlassian software (JIRA, Confluence, FishEye, etc.).
Additional Information
Devexperts employees create the art of FinTech in comfortable working spaces in modern business centers around the world. Join our team in Porto and enjoy:
Work Regime Flexibility benefits:
- Flexible working hours
- Work From Anywhere Program
Health and recreation benefits:
- Fully paid additional wellness days (3 unwell days per year)
- Medical insurance for the employees and children
- Reimbursement of fitness / Urban Sports Club Membership
- Meal allowance (Coverflex Card)
- Flexpay system (Coverflex)
Facility benefits:
- Modern office with new equipment
- PlayStation, table football, and musical instruments in the office
- Parking spaces
- Free drinks and snacks
Community benefits:
- Teambuilding activities
- Corporate parties
- Football Club
- Music club
- Speakers' club
- Free admission to corporate external events
- Possibility of joining conferences and professional fairs
- Personal branding development support
Professional training benefits:
- English language courses
- Local language courses for foreign employees
- Unlimited access to self-learning platforms
- Certification opportunities
- Mentorship Program
Social benefits:
- Parental bonus
- Pension plan (Coverflex)
- Referral bonus
- Blood donation paid leave
Top Skills
What We Do
Devexperts was founded in 2002 and specializes in the development of highly complex software solutions and services for the Capital Markets industry.
We develop financial software solutions for retail and institutional brokerages, wealth-management firms, investment funds, exchanges, and insurance companies.
Devexperts market expertise ranges from Equities to Options, to FX and Commodities in geographical locations as diverse as Chicago, New York, London, Tokyo, Istanbul, and Shanghai.
The Devexperts development team of 500 engineers is recognized as one of the best in the world. Since 2002, we have received more than 25 of the global software and financial industry's most prestigious awards.
In order to achieve competitive effectiveness, our project teams adhere to classic software development methodologies and employ elements of Agile software development, such as Scrum, Kanban, eXtreme Programming, Continuous Integration, and Test-Driven Development.
The high performance, scalability and integration capabilities of our products and services, along with 24x7x365 monitoring and support, result in some of the global financial industry’s most recognized and reliable technology applications (for leading US brokerage companies).
Devexperts has 3 key business areas:
• Trading platforms and brokerage automation
• Complex software development projects
• Market data products
Devexperts also provides consulting services for financial institutions in the fields of:
• Real-time transaction processing
• Trading automation
• Risk management
• Highly complex, enterprise-wide trading platform applications.
