About the Role
Apex Fintech Solutions is seeking a Junior Database Administrator to administer, optimize, and support high-volume, highly available database systems across GCP managed services (Cloud SQL PostgreSQL, Memorystore for Redis/Valkey, AlloyDB, Spanner, BigQuery) as well as MongoDB and PostgreSQL.
Duties/Responsibilities
- Implement all database changes via IaC (Terraform + GitHub PRs).
- Manage large transactional replication with low-latency delivery, using BigQuery as a replication target; tune performance and cost.
- Establish backup/restore, PITR, HA/failover testing, DR runbooks, and an overall database support plan.
- Collaborate with engineering teams on schema reviews, query optimization, and BigQuery governance; handle security/audit tasks.
- Embrace DevOps: automate DB operations, manage CI/CD for DB changes, and modern monitoring/alerting.
- Support incident response and participate in on-call rotations (off-hours, Central Time) and scheduled maintenance (patching, VLDB index work, DR testing).
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of prior hands-on DBA experience, preferably with Postgres and MongoDB.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent work experience required.
- Administering and optimizing PostgreSQL environments, including transactional replication expertise.
- GCP Cloud SQL PostgreSQL and solid PostgreSQL database management knowledge.
- Preferred: Memorystore for Redis, AlloyDB, Spanner, and BigQuery (incl. BigQuery performance tuning & admin).
- Preferred: other cloud DB platforms (Azure SQL, AWS RDS).
- Terraform / IaC and GitHub for managing database infrastructure changes.
- High-availability architectures and disaster recovery planning & execution.
- High-volume / fintech / securities transactional environment a plus.
Work Environment
- This job operates in a hybrid office environment three days per week.
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Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Our Rewards
We offer a robust package of employee perks and benefits, including healthcare benefits (medical, dental and vision, EAP), competitive PTO, 401k match, parental leave, and HSA contribution match. We also provide our employees with a paid subscription to the Calm app and offer generous external learning and tuition reimbursement benefits. At AFS, we offer a hybrid work schedule for most roles that allows employees to have the flexibility of working from home and one of our primary offices.
