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Senior Database Administrator- Infrastructure

Company: Zepz
Location: Florida
Posted on: March 17, 2023

Job Description:

About Zepz

Zepz is the group powering two leading global remittance brands: WorldRemit and Sendwave. Since 2010, we have been disrupting an industry previously dominated by offline legacy players with our relentless focus to reduce the cost of remittances and increase safety and convenience for our users. Every day, our people work to unlock the prosperity of cross-border communities through finance and technology - driven by our vision of a world that celebrates migrants' impact on prosperity, at home and abroad.

Our brands helped cross-border communities send over $15bn from 50 countries to recipients in 130 countries in 2022. We operate over 5,000 money transfer corridors worldwide and employ over 1,600 people globally. Zepz is a remote-first employer, with team members located across six continents.
Our vision is to create a world that celebrates migrants' impact on prosperity, at home and abroad. Our purpose is to unlock the prosperity of cross-border communities through finance and technology.

Zepz.io

Our Commitments:

  • We act like owners - We are relentlessly delivering for our users and spending money thoughtfully.
  • We embrace embarrassing honesty - We function best when we're open and honest with one another - especially about our challenges and doubts.
  • We have a bias to action - We get to first outcomes quickly, iterate and learn.
  • We strive to be better - We may make mistakes, but always learn from them.
  • We are inclusive - to better reflect and serve our users.

    About the role

    You will be part of a Infrastructure team located in the US ,responsible for managing the critical 24/7 Production databases. The role will require you to maintain and improve the databases by proactively monitoring them for performance and stability issues.

    As a member of WorldRemit's Engineering team team you will aim high, embrace challenges and always do what's right; acting with integrity and building trust as you contribute to the company's technical direction and long term decision making.

    Reporting to the Data Team Lead, you will:
  • Manage the critical 24/7 production database on the Azure and AWS
  • Maintain and improve databases by proactively monitoring them for performance and stability issues
  • Review and deploy schema changes proposed by the engineering teams
  • Ensure that any changes they propose will not negatively impact the performance of the database and conform to best-practice standards
  • Migrate from MSSQL and MySQL to PostgreSQL
  • Mentor developers how to write efficient code, cost optimization, tuning critical code, automation, implementing monitoring solution
  • Advise on data store choices and modelling What we're looking for from you...
    • 3+ years' experience of working as a DBA on highly transactional DB preferably SQL Server databases in high-availability setups
    • Experience in design, implement, and tune SQL statements and stored processes to best practice standards
    • Experience of both developing and administering SSRS
    • Experience in working in a cloud native environment preferably AWS and work with various scripting languages
    • Experience of both developing and administering various NoSQL DBs like KeyValue, Document store, Graph or are willing to learn. Preferably like MongoDB and ElasticSearch
    • Experience of both developing and administering various noncommercial DBs like MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL or are willing to learn
    • Experience of both developing and administering various noncommercial DBs like Redshift, Aurora, Hyperscale...
    • Experience with advising on data store choices and to advise what is the best tool for the best job. Understand difference between OTLP, OLAP, DWH and Data lake concepts and how to model
    • Experience with working in a critical environment where rapid response to outages is required and you are happy to participate in an out-of-hours on-call support rotation What we offer you:

      Please note that the benefits below do not apply to part-time, contractor or temporary roles.

      We have five core benefits for our talent in the US, UK, Philippines, Poland, and South Africa. If you're not in one of those regions, don't worry - the Talent team can let you know what is available for you specifically:
      • Unlimited Annual Leave: Most Zepz team members are eligible for unlimited annual leave. Colleagues in customer-facing roles, receive a competitive holiday allowance and four recharge days a year. Feel free to make the most of your time off and maintain a healthy work-life balance!
      • Private Medical Cover: You can opt-in to a Private Medical Insurance scheme. This provides you with access to thorough medical coverage, so you can feel confident in your health and well-being.
      • Retirement: We offer pension schemes to help you plan for and secure your future.
      • Life Assurance: Life assurance is available to give you peace of mind and protect your loved ones in case of the unexpected..
      • Parental Leave: We offer competitive parental leave schemes to ensure you are spending as much quality time with your new bundle of joy as possible. We are also remote-first as an organisation, offering flexibility for you to work where you need to be most productive. In many locations, we have workspaces, which you can use as you desire.

        Most roles in the Philippines are predominately office-based, with this we offer free meals for those 100% on-site.

        In addition to the above, you will discover that we have a range of secondary perks (such as the cycle-to-work scheme and employee discounts) depending on your location, to help you thrive at Zepz!

        Why choose Zepz?
        • Our team of over 1600+ employees is fully distributed across the world. We are working from coffee shops, homes, and co-working spaces - making us one of the larger fully distributed growth-stage startups in the world but we also offer workspace in our talent cluster locations - spaces we can meet, collaborate and connect.
        • We are proud parents, community organizers, farmers, band members, yoga teachers, YouTube influencers, former Olympians, and serial entrepreneurs.
        • We collectively speak over twenty languages, including Akuapem, Amharic, Bengali, Ewe, Fante, Ga, Igbo, Kalenjin, Luganda, Oromo, Somali, Swahili, Wolof, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.
        • At Zepz, embodying our commitments binds us together. We are collectively passionate about striving to achieve our vision and purpose - to continue to provide the best service to our users.
          Ready to apply?

          Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. If interested, please submit your resume along with a cover letter (optional), highlighting why your experience demonstrates you meet the requirements of the role. Please also indicate the countries in which you have work authorization. While Zepz supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skills.

          At Zepz we record interviews using Metaview ( https://metaview.ai ). It helps us become better interviewers by recording and transcribing our interviews, and ensures we interview candidates in a fair & consistent manner. It is not required. Please let us know if you'd like to opt out of the use of Metaview - this will not affect the outcome of your interview.

          Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job. But we'll let you in on a secret: there's no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. Zepz is a place where everyone can thrive.

          So however you identify and whatever background you bring with you, and if at all you might need any form of support to make the process as comfortable as possible, please let us know and give us a shot by applying. We want you to be excited to wake up to make an impact every day.

Keywords: Zepz, Paterson , Senior Database Administrator- Infrastructure, IT / Software / Systems , Florida, New Jersey

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