Hiring Postgres Database Architect

The Voleon Group is a technology-driven investment firm employing cutting-edge machine learning techniques seeks an exceptionally capable Postgres Database Architect. Your responsibilities will include making technical decisions with respect to relational database technologies; deploying, configuring and maintaining database systems; working with software engineers to work through performance problems and optimize database performance; and support database replication and backup processes.

The firm researches and deploys systematic trading strategies designed to generate attractive returns independent of the performance of the overall market. Join a team of under 50 people that includes Ph.D.'s from Berkeley, Chicago, CMU, Princeton, Stanford, and UCLA, led by the founder and CEO of a successful Internet infrastructure technology firm. The firm's offices are walking distance from BART and the UC Berkeley campus in downtown Berkeley, California. We have a casual and collegial office environment, daily catered lunches, and competitive benefits packages.

We seek candidates with a passion for building out automated, maintainable infrastructure that is flexible in serving the needs of a dynamic team of software, research and systems engineers. Someone with an eye for detail, and who has a solid grasp of the revolution currently happening within the IT and database administration community.

We are growing rapidly. Willingness to take initiative and a gritty determination to productize are essential.

Required qualifications:

Expert in Postgres, including replication and performance optimization.
Computer science degree or equivalent
5+ years professional experience in IT, 2+ years as a DBA
Strong experience managing Oracle deployments, including backup and recovery.
Professional experience writing and debugging SQL.
Professional experience deploying and maintaining distributed key/value stores, such as Redis or Cassandra.
Strong proficiency in storage technologies, SAN/NAS, RAID systems, etc.

Preferred qualifications:

Professional experience with MySQL and SQL Server.
Database access control, RBAC.
Solid experience with Windows Server and SQL Server.
Scripting skills including Python and PL/SQL.

If interested, please apply on our website: https://jobs.lever.co/voleon/

Charles Weitzer

Senior Recruiter
The Voleon Group
charles(at)voleon(dot)com
Office: 510.704.9870 x 7012
Mobile: (510) 558-9182
www.voleon.com