About the role
Description
Fluent Trade Technologies is a global fintech software firm, recognized as a market leader in the eFX space. For over a decade, we’ve been delivering ultra-low-latency trading and market data solutions to the world’s largest banks, hedge funds, and non-bank institutions.
Our modular and scalable platform empowers clients to achieve faster, smarter trading decisions, improve execution certainty, and grow their market share across multiple asset classes — including eFX, eFutures, eFixed-Income, Cryptocurrencies, and eMetals.
With development centers in Europe and a collaborative, innovation-driven culture, Fluent’s mission is simple: to eliminate barriers to the most advanced trading technology and make it accessible to all market participants.
Learn more about us at www.fluenttech.net.
We are looking for an experienced MySQL DBA, who can cover both database maintenance, failover, optimization etc, as well as help with SQL/Stored procedures optimization.
Responsibilities:
Be a part of rapid development cycles to deliver high-quality products
Hands-on Development of infrastructure and maintenance
Be responsible for All databases in the organization, including development DBs, Staging DBs and Production DBs
Cover Admin aspects like: Security, Failover/replication, Optimization etc.
Cover Design aspects like: table structure, indexing, query / stored procedures design etc.
Incorporate products, work procedures, best practices and architecture
Going over specifications documents thoroughly to find special cases and scenarios
Cooperate with dev, QA and devops teams
Becoming the house expert on Database.
Train developers and QA on .
Requirements
5 years experience as DBA, at least 3 of them as MySQL DBA
Hands-on experience with DBA failover, security, optimization, backup etc.
Hands-on experience with DB design, testing and maintenance
Self-managed, can work as a single DBA in the organization
Experience with a scripting language - Python, Bash.
Issue resolution abilities and good analysis to root cause detection
Mandatory -- good English, both written and spoken
Advantage
Developed in C++, specifically calling mysql from it
Financial background: FIX protocol, FX trading,
Experience with Jira, SVN, Jenkins
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