Database Administrator | Experienced Hire

Overview

Susquehanna International Group is seeking a MariaDB/Oracle Database Administrator to join our team! This role offers the opportunity to leverage your current knowledge of relational database expertise to ensure stability and scalability of our enterprise database platform.  You will not only focus on installing, configuring and updating our current environment of hundreds of instances, but will also ensure that current and future instances are optimized to meet the needs of our evolving business. 

• Scalability - This opportunity offers exposure to our high transaction and high availability financial trading environment consisting of multiple database platforms. 
• Collaboration - You will partner closely with fellow database administrators, as well as our development and engineering teams to share ideas and recommendations for solutions that will increase and expand our enterprise database capabilities. 
• Automation - As we continue to look for ways to automate and improve our environment, you will have the opportunity to further develop your scripting skills. 
• Continuous Learning - We are looking for someone with a growth mindset who is interested in increasing their database skills

What you can expect from us:

Real Impact: You’ll be designing and optimizing systems that process massive amounts of data, ensuring high performance and stability. You’ll see how your contributions towards developing and supporting leading-edge hardware and software solutions make a firm-wide impact that makes us all smarter, faster, and better. 

Collaboration: Our systems engineers, network architects, technical analysts and software developers work together to create competitive edge through best-in-class technical solutions.

Growth: For many of our roles, we don’t expect you to have prior industry experience in proprietary trading or financial services to succeed at Susquehanna International Group. We’re looking for people who are naturally curious, relentless problem solvers, and have the desire to continuously innovate, learn, and grow. 

Benefits: Susquehanna offers a wide array of competitive employee perks & benefits such as: an onsite wellness center staffed with a full-time Nurse Practitioner, a 9,000 square-foot gym, food & beverages available all day, onsite services such as dry cleaning & laundry, and auto repair & detailing. 

About SIG SIG is a global quantitative trading firm founded by a group of friends who share a passion for game theory and probabilistic thinking. We have incorporated this approach into our culture, where you will find relentless problem solvers within each of our core disciplines: Trading, Technology, and Quantitative Research. From offices around the world, our employees collaborate to make optimal decisions and are driven by the desire to achieve

winning results together.

What we do We are experts in trading essentially all listed financial products and asset classes, with a focus on derivatives trading. Through market making and market taking, we handle millions of trading transactions around the world every day, providing liquidity and ensuring competitive prices for buyers and sellers. While our presence in the market is broad, our trading desks are highly specialized, allowing for a deep understanding of unique drivers of each asset class.

What we’re looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline required
• 5 years of experience with MariaDB required
• 3 years of experience with Oracle required
• Strong relational database knowledge, troubleshooting, and performance tuning required 
• Thorough understanding of the Linux operating system and Linux shell scripting required
• Thorough understanding of database backup and recovery concepts required
• Experience with enterprise monitoring tools such as SQL Diagnostic Manager for MySQL and Oracle Enterprise Manager or similar tools
• Knowledge of high availability architectures
• Cloud experience a plus