Senior Database Administrator

About the role

Global Innovations Finance is a growing financial services organization focused on technology-driven solutions for regional and international markets. It is looking for a Senior Database Administrator to manage and maintain its production, staging and disaster recovery database environments, optimize performance and support payment transaction integrity.

Key responsibilities

• Manage and monitor production, staging and DR database environments.
• Optimize database performance, SQL queries, indexing and resource utilization.
• Manage backups, recovery, replication and high availability; perform routine maintenance and health checks.
• Implement security, access controls and audit monitoring.
• Troubleshoot production issues such as slow queries, deadlocks and transaction errors.
• Run periodic backup restoration and disaster recovery testing.
• Support payment transaction integrity, investigation and reconciliation.
• Coordinate database incidents with application, infrastructure, security and vendor teams.
• Lead DBA operations, mentor team members and set operational standards.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of hands-on database administration experience.
• Experience in banking, FinTech, digital wallets, payment gateways or financial transaction processing systems.

Required skills

• PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server
• AWS RDS