Database Administrator (DBA)

The Voleon Group; Berkeley (CA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and benefits packages

Daily catered lunches

Modern office

Job summary

The Voleon Group in Berkeley is seeking a skilled Database Administrator (DBA) to manage and support database systems. This hands-on role requires strong expertise in PostgreSQL, with responsibilities including routine database operations and collaboration with infrastructure teams. Competitive compensation ranges from $155K to $195K. Join a company that applies AI and machine learning techniques to investment management and offers a collegial working environment.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with at least one of PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle required.
• Solid grasp of DBA operational tasks, including backups, replication, and security.
• Basic experience with performance tuning; medium level preferred.
• Basic knowledge of Linux systems including filesystem layout and OS-level tools.
• Experience with configuration management and automation tools.

Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, and maintain relational databases in production.
• Perform routine DB operations like backup and recovery.
• Support incident response and root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with systems teams to improve DB processes.
• Leverage Linux command-line knowledge to troubleshoot.

Skills

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Oracle

Linux knowledge

Configuration management (Ansible)

Cloud configuration

Automation tools

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS RDS

Azure Database

GCP Cloud SQL

Job description

Voleon is a technology company that applies state‑of‑the‑art AI and machine learning techniques to real‑world problems in finance. For nearly two decades, we have led our industry and worked at the frontier of applying AI/ML to investment management. We have become a multibillion‑dollar asset manager, and we have ambitious goals for the future.

Your colleagues will include internationally recognized experts in artificial intelligence and machine learning research as well as highly experienced finance and technology professionals. The people who shape our company come from other backgrounds, including concert music performances, humanitarian aid, opera singing, sports writing, and BMX racing. You will be part of a team that loves to succeed together.

In addition to our enriching and collegial working environment, we offer highly competitive compensation and benefits packages, technology talks by our experts, a beautiful modern office, daily catered lunches, and more.

Your Team

We are seeking a skilled Database Administrator (DBA) to help manage and support our database systems as a core part of our infrastructure team.

You will take ownership of day‑to‑day operations, availability, backups and performance of production and development database environments, while also contributing to automation, tuning and modernization efforts.

This role involves working closely with systems infrastructure and storage components, and will require hands‑on management of both software and the underlying hardware that supports the database environment.

This is a hands‑on role for someone with strong expertise in at least one major relational database (PostgreSQL), preferably with additional experience with one or more of (MySQL, Oracle or SQLServer) and a desire to grow into broader technical domains.

Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, and maintain relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle) in production and development environments
• Perform routine DB operations such as backup and recovery, schema changes, patching, upgrades, and security hardening
• Support incident response, root cause analysis, and recovery for database‑related issues
• Automation, configuration management, modernization
• Monitoring and analysis
• Work collaboratively with systems and infrastructure teams to understand storage, OS and networking components that influence database performance and reliability
• Leverage basic Linux command‑line and systems knowledge to troubleshoot and improve DB processes

Requirements

• Strong hands‑on experience with at least one of PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle (PostgreSQL strongly preferred)
• Solid grasp of daily DBA operational tasks, including backups, replication, security, user management and logging
• At minimum, basic experience with performance tuning; medium level strongly preferred
• Basic knowledge of Linux systems, including filesystem layout, memory / disk utilization, and OS‑level tools
• Experience with configuration management (Ansible) and other automation / deployment tools
• Experience with both On‑Prem and Cloud configuration
• Experience with database‑specific monitoring

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to containerized environments (Docker, Podman, Kubernetes) for running database workloads
• Familiarity with Ceph RBD as a backend for database storage or similar distributed storage systems
• Understanding of modern big data formats or engines like Hadoop, Parquet, RocksDB
• Linux networking fundamentals (troubleshooting connections, ports, interfaces)
• Experience with cloud‑based DB offerings (e.g., AWS RDS, Azure Database, GCP Cloud SQL)
• Familiarity with application development or scripting in BASH, Java or Python, particularly for automating databases install / configuration
• Experience with general Monitoring and Alerting

Equal Opportunity Employer

The Voleon Group is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.

Compensation Range: $155K - $195K