Senior Database Administrator (DBA)

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Cyprus
Senior level
Fintech • Payments • Financial Services
The Role
The Senior Database Administrator will manage and maintain PostgreSQL and MySQL databases, optimize database resources, conduct project migrations, ensure high availability, and improve database infrastructure. Responsibilities include proactive monitoring, troubleshooting, documentation maintenance, and automating database tasks, working collaboratively with internal teams.
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About the Company

Join Zeal Group, the award-winning FinTech Trading Platform and Trading Service provider. Our portfolio of regulated financial institutions and fintech companies is backed by a global team of 700+ professionals with headquarters in the UK and 22 offices worldwide. As a leading online trading provider for FX, commodities, precious metals, and CFD, we facilitate an estimated monthly trading volume of USD 100B by retail investors, traders, and institutions. With our Technology Hub in Cyprus, we offer a dynamic environment for creative minds.

About the role

We're seeking an enthusiastic and proactive Database Administrator who specializes in Database administration (PostgreSQL + MySQL) and has a strong passion for IT to join our Technical Operations team due to ZFX's ongoing global expansion.

The chosen candidate will be responsible for maintaining our databases and providing assistance to our employees and projects related to database tasks, such as optimizing the database resources to align with the company's performance, redundancy, and reliability objectives.

As you'll be collaborating with both internal teams and stakeholders, flexibility in work hours is required to accommodate the business's requirements.

What you’ll be doing

  • Creation and maintenance of infrastructure for PostgreSQL.
  • Conduct project migrations to PostgreSQL clusters.
  • Administration of MySQL
  • Searching for non-consistent data and adding checks to prevent similar cases in the future
  • Reviewing new code that relates to changes in the way the database works
  • Proactive monitoring and performance troubleshooting
  • Accountability for the high critical environments which should be available 24x7x365
  • Development of an extensive replication scheme
  • Automation for DB tasks
  • Improving Database infrastructure (deploy and maintain column-oriented DB, Cloud DWH engines)
  • Adherence to ITIL key principles: change management, approval procedures, etc
  • Maintenance of documentation and inventory up to date
  • Setting up backups, monitoring
  • Monitoring workload of the database.
Requirements

What you’ll need

  • PostgreSQL administration experience of at least 3 years
  • Knowledge of creating failover database clusters for PostgreSQL
  • Experience for administrative MySQL DB
  • Experience in building and maintaining complex replication schemes
  • TCP/IP networking skills
  • Column and Document DB experience of at least 1 year (MongoDB, ClickHouse)
  • Knowledge of monitoring systems such as Zabbix, Prometheus
  • Desire to study in the field of database administration
  • Experience in designing systems running continuously and uninterruptedly (24x7x365) under high load
  • Understanding of the principles of operation and experience in maintaining cloud DVH storages (BigQuery)
  • Experience in scripting languages (bash and/or python/perl)
  • At least 3 years of Linux administration experience
  • Knowledge of SQL language, and the ability to optimize PostgreSQL performance.
  • English B2
Benefits

Package

  • Paid 21 days of holidays per year and 10 additional days for national holiday
  • Training opportunities for growth and expansion of knowledge
  • Ability to work remotely
  • Flexible and hybrid schedule – we value work-life balance
  • Referral Bonus Program

Top Skills

Bash
Clickhouse
MongoDB
MySQL
Perl
Postgres
Python
SQL
The Company
Amsterdam
348 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

Zeal Group is an award-winning FinTech organisation offering a variety of products. Founded in 2017, we have grown to a team of 700+ employees across the globe
Our offices and presence are spread across Europe, Asia, North & South Africa, Middle East and South America, with our Technology hubs located in Cyprus and Netherlands
We are a product and people focused company who are passionate about growth, innovative technology, and collaboration

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