Database Architect - Voleon Capital Management LP

Database Architect
Berkeley
IT
Full-time

The Voleon Group is a technology-driven investment firm employing
cutting-edge machine learning techniques seeks an exceptionally capable
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

        Computer science degree or equivalent
        5+ years professional experience in IT, 2+ years as a DBA
        Expert in Postgres, including replication and performance
optimization.
        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, apply at http://voleon.com/apply/.



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