SENIOR CLOUD DBA

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 looking for a Senior Cloud DBA to join RavenPack’s Development team.
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 % uptime across a multi-terabyte system As a Cloud 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.
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  As a Cloud DBA, 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.
You will also be troubleshooting the issues that might appear.
Evaluating new databases 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.
Administrating, configuring and analyzing queries for improvements with Postgres.
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.
Helping to optimize queries.
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.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform will be strongly considered.
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.
Desirable Scripting skills in Bash, Python or similar will also be recognized for this position.
Postgres experience administrating, configuring and analyzing queries for improvements.
Professional experience as Linux Sys Admin.
Demonstrable knowledge of network design and troubleshooting.
Technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Spark.
What's in it for you You will work with the latest technologies.
Flexibility to work remotely with a maximum of 2 hours time zone difference 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!) 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.