PostgreSQL Database Administrator - Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Deriv

Deriv

Verified Company

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Ahmed Al-Mansouri

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Description

Job Information

Industry

Backend Development

City

Dubai

Country

United Arab Emirates

As a Database Administrator at Deriv, you will be part of the highly talented Storage team.

You will use your extensive experience to ensure that our Postgres databases are scalable, secure, resilient, and redundant in case of failure.

In close collaboration with the wider team, you will guarantee the security, integrity, and seamless flow of information for our high-traffic online trading platform.

Your challenges

The role is technically challenging and fast paced
The role requires close collaboration with the Team Lead and the Principal Engineer for Storage to align with strategic goals
You will help to plan and prioritize work to be progressed by the team
You will help to nurture and grow more junior members of the team
You will proactively monitor and review the storage landscape, and look for ways to innovate and refine to meet ever increasing volume, performance, security and availability challenges
The role requires multisite collaboration over different time zones

Our team

The Storage team covers all research & development projects and production support activities relating to inmemory caches, relational databases and long term storage.

As Deriv's operations and transaction volumes grow in size, developing products and services requires ongoing innovation to provide enhanced scalability, performance, security, and disaster recovery.

Join us to realise these ambitions with your knowledge and engineering experience and expertise.

Requirements:

Excellent software development and code review skills with
PostgreSQL (recent experience)
Excellent system administration skills using Linux on AWS/GCP
Extensive experience working with large, distributed, highperformance, high availability databases with 24/7 uptime
Good command of both spoken and written English
Occasional travel between office locations across the Globe
A university degree in software engineering, computer science, or a related field
A desire to continue learning and keeping up to date with the Postgres & Linux communities and best practices

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