Senior Database Administrator

Senior Database Administrator

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. 

We are looking for a Senior Database Engineer who will be responsible for on-premises and Cloud database infrastructure administration.
 

We expect the Senior Database Engineer to: 
 

• Ensure database services meet agreed service levels for availability, recoverability, performance, and scalability.
• Design and manage database subsystems, including clustering, replication, etc.
• Define and execute backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity procedures.
• Handle database compliance with industry standards, regulations, and best practices.
• Establish monitoring standards, capacity planning practices, and operational metrics to proactively identify risks and trends before they impact the business.
• Investigate production incidents, coordinate resolution efforts, perform root cause analysis, and drive remediation initiatives to prevent recurrence.
• Work closely with Developers, Quality Assurance and Support departments on a regular basis assisting with Database-related requests.
• Participate in an on-call rotation and serve as an escalation point for complex production issues affecting critical systems.
• Apply cost reduction practices for Cloud database Infrastructure based on the resources usage and databases load profile
• Conduct deep analysis of database performance issues, implementing solutions.
• Oversee data migration projects and perform risk analysis
• Drive innovation in database technologies within the project or business unit.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience administering PostgreSQL in production environments within mission-critical systems,
• Proven experience designing, implementing, and operating high-availability PostgreSQL architectures using Patroni,
• Hands-on experience managing Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL,
• Strong expertise in backup and recovery strategies, including planning and executing Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR) using tools such as pgBackRest and Barman,
• Solid understanding of PostgreSQL internals (MVCC, vacuuming, query planning, replication concepts, etc),
• Extensive experience with performance monitoring, SQL workload analysis, and database tuning, with the ability to identify bottlenecks and optimize database performance,
• Experience automating database deployment, configuration management, and operational processes using Ansible,
• Practical experience implementing and maintaining PostgreSQL partitioning strategies, including both native partitioning and TimescaleDB for time-series workloads,
• Strong working knowledge of Linux operating systems, including system performance analysis, process management, networking fundamentals, and storage concepts relevant to database operation,
• Familiarity with database monitoring and observability tools such as Zabbix, including metrics collection, alerting, and log analysis,
• Exposure to column-oriented database technologies such as ClickHouse, with an understanding of their core concepts, architecture, and performance characteristics, would be a plus.

Additional Information

Care for the employees is one of Devexperts' core values. For the suggested position, we offer a benefits package that will guarantee the comfort of our new teammate.  
 

Work Regime Flexibility benefits: 
 

• Possibility of hybrid/remote work mode
• Flexible working hours
   

Health and recreation benefits: 

 

• 24 working days of paid vacation, 
• Fully paid additional wellness days (3 days per year),
• FitPass (sport and related activities) access,
• Medical insurance - VIP package. 
   

Facility benefits: 
 

• Modern office with new equipment, 
• PlayStation and table football in the office, 
• Meals in the office.
   

Community benefits: 
 

• Teambuilding activities, 
• Corporate parties, 
• Football club, 
• Billiard 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, 
• Georgian language courses for foreign employees, 
• Unlimited access to self-learning platforms, 
• Certification opportunities, 
• Mentorship Program. 
   

Social benefits: 
 

• Parental bonus, 
• Referral bonus, 
• Blood donation paid leave, 
• Gifts for employees, 
• Gifts for children,
• Free drinks and snacks.